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17th Asian Games Incheon 2014

Posted Oct 3, 2014 In: Bowling Event | Bowling News
By Bowling.com

Topseeds, Park Jong Woo and Lee Na Young added two more gold medals for host nation, Korea at the concluding 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014 with victory in the Men's and Women's Masters.

Park, who was seventh from yesterday's first block and advanced to the stepladder finals from today's second block as topseed, defeated second-seed, Wu Siu Hong of Hong Kong, 407-401 to claim his third gold medal at the games.

The Korean started the first match with a double while Wu opened in the first. Park could not pull away in his next four frames until the sixth and seventh frames where he doubled again as his opponent continued to struggle.

Another double gave the first match to Park, 225-182 and a 43 pins margin. In the second match, it was Wu who doubled in his first two frames as it was Park's turn, who stuggled to find any connecting strikes.

17th Asian Games Incheon 2014Although Wu had another double in the seventh and eighth frames, his 214 game only gave him a 401 total against Park's 407 and had to settle for the silver.

Wu had tied with third-seed, Shaker Al Hassan of UAE at 183 in the first match forcing a 9 and 10 frame roll-off to break the tie. Wu downed 35 while Shaker had a split in the tenth frame to take home the bronze medal with 27.

Undoubtedly the star of this year's games is Lee Na Young of Korea. Lee, who had already won three gold medals, captured her fourth after she defeated third-seed and challenger, Wang Ya Ting of Chinese Taipei.

Lee, who had an early split in third frame, made a late charge by striking out from frame 8 to take the first match 223-202 and building a 21 pin cushion. The topseed got off to a cracking start in the second match with five strikes-in-a-row.

The Taiwanese responded with three of her own but still trailed the Korean by 32 pins. Lee went on to seal victory with 254 and a total of 477 as Wang put up a good fight for a 235 match and 437 total.

The first stepladder match between second-seed, Son Yun Hee of Korea and Wang was a much tighter match. Son's only open frame from a split in the ninth frame cost the Korean while Wang, who had an early double, made no further mistake to take the match, 193-190 to advance to the championship match.

Korea emerged as overall champion with a medal haul of 7 gold, 1 silver and 6 bronze medals. Japan had 2 gold from the Men's Doubles and Trios. Singapore won the Women's Team gold while Thailand and Chinese Taipei were the other countries to win the remaining two gold medals.

103 men and 74 women from 19 countries took part in the bowling competition of this year's games. The next Asian Games will be hosted by Indonesia in 2018.