• China breaks 4x100m Asian record

• South wins dramatic all-Korean football final

INCHEON, South Korea — Saudi Arabia won its third gold medal when Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Hebshi claimed the shot put final at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon Thursday.



Al-Hebshi won the gold with a best throw of 19.99 meters, while Chinese Taipei’s Chang Ming-huang took the silver and India’s Inderjeet Singh the bronze.



The Kingdom also a bronze medal in the 4x400m relay race. Mohammed Ali Al-Bishi, Ahmed Yahya Al-Khayri, Yousef Ahmed Masrahi and Ismael Mohammed Al-Subiani came third behind Japanese and South Korea.



China’s men’s 4x100m relay team broke the Asian record as it raced to gold, with Japan second and Hong Kong third.



The Chinese crossed in 37.99 seconds, the first time an Asian relay team has gone below 38 seconds and the third best time in the world this year.



Hong Kong snatched bronze from Thailand in a tight anchor leg on the sixth day of competition at Incheon’s Asiad Main Stadium.



China made it a relay double with another victory in the women’s 4x100, led by 100m gold medalist and 200m silver medalist Wei Yongli.



There was more long-distance gold for Bahrain’s African imports as Maryam Yusuf Jamal won the 5,000m and Eunice Kirwa the marathon.



Host South Korea, meanwhile, beat North Korea 1-0 with virtually the last kick of extra time to win the men’s football final.



Defender Rim Chang-woo smashed home a last-gasp winner from close range to settle an emotionally charged final, giving South Korea its fourth title and a first since 1986.



Japan and China won the gold medals in the rugby sevens, affirming their status as the region’s powerhouses in one of Asia’s fastest growing sport.



Japan beat Hong Kong 24-12 in a free-flowing match to win the men’s title for the third time in a row, while China held on to beat Japan 14-12 in the women’s decider.



Sri Lanka dumped defending champion Bangladesh from the cricket contest through the luck of the toss after their semifinal was rained out.



Bangladesh, sent in to bat in overcast conditions, recovered from 6-3 to reach 59 without further loss in 11 overs when rain hit the Yeonhui cricket field to ruin the rest of the Twenty20 game.



Sri Lanka will meet Afghanistan in Friday’s gold medal clash, while Bangladesh was left to play Hong Kong for the bronze earlier in the day —weather permitting.



Off the field Malaysia’s wushu champion Tai Cheau Xuen lost an appeal against a doping failure that saw her stripped of her Asian Games gold medal, Olympic Council of Asia sources said.



A special division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport set up at the Games dismissed an appeal by Tai, the sources told AFP.



Tai tested positive for the stimulant sibutramine after winning the gold medal on Sept. 20, the first day of competition, according to the OCA. Malaysia had protested her innocence.



Five athletes have failed doping tests at the Games and been expelled since it opened. The OCA says that a record 1,900 athletes out of some 9,500 in Incheon will undergo drug tests.



Indian boxer Sarita Devi was facing the prospect of disciplinary action after she refused a medal at the Asian Games, as organizers called for “fair play” following a series of controversies.



Boxing’s world body opened a case against Devi, 32, after she rejected her bronze medal and condemned judges over a controversial semifinal loss to South Korea’s Park Ji-na.



“The whole incident looked like a well planned scenario by her and her team,” AIBA technical delegate in Incheon David Francis said in a statement.



Son Cheon-taik, the sports deputy secretary general of the Games organizing committee, said Devi’s decision to refuse the medal was against the spirit of the event.



But he also said organizers had written to the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA) after controversies involving India and Mongolia, among others. — Agencies