Women’s individual Kayak Slalom 18th Asian Games 2018

18th  Asian Games Jakarta

Palembang 2018

Japan wins gold in Women’s individual 

Kayak Slalom

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Asian Games 2018

Antara/Majalengka, West Java

Japanese kayaker Aki Yazawa won gold in the women's individual kayak slalom category at the Rentang Dam in Majalengka Regency, West Java, on Wednesday. She booked 95.83 seconds with zero penalties.

Yazawa outperformed Chinese kayaker Tong Li, who took silver with 100.17 seconds, 4.34 seconds less than Yazawa, with zero penalties.

In third place, Chinese Taipei’s Chuhan Chang won bronze with 103.80 seconds and a penalty of 2 seconds. Chang improved his timing in the semifinals at 114.59 seconds with a time penalty of 52 seconds.

Secretary-general of the Asian Canoe Confederation Wai hung Luk presented the winners medals.

Meanwhile, the only Indonesian representative in the semifinals, Sumita Kurnia, failed to win a medal in the final with a time of 148.8 seconds and a 4 second penalty. Sumita ranked 7th after Yazawa Aki, Li Tong, Chuhan Chang, Kamila Safina of Kazakhstan at 118.25 seconds, Thatchaporn Pornchai of Thailand at 125.25 seconds and Roxana Razeghian of Iran at 134.03 seconds.

"We tried our best, I know Sumita has been training hard and doing her best, and her performance really needs to be appreciated because this is the first time Indonesia has competed in the Asian Games slalom branch," said Indonesian national team coach Uyun Gunawan.

The Indonesian team still has hope for a medal in the men's individual slalom through 21-year-old Arifal, who will compete in the semifinal on Thursday.