Japan's Kosuke Hagino won his fourth swimming gold but China ruled the pool as they shot out to a big lead on the medals table at the Asian Games on Wednesday. Hagino, 20, put in a strong final freestyle leg to add the 400 metres medley to his 200m medley, 200m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle titles in Incheon. "That was hard work, I felt like I could be in a bit of bother," Hagino told reporters. "I didn't expect to feel that tired but I kept it together somehow. Obviously the freestyle (leg) did bail me out."
-- Gymnast Zou all gold as China end wait
But the night belonged as much to China, who rounded off another dominant day of competition with four swimming golds including the women's 200m freestyle and butterfly. Chinese Olympic star Zou Kai ended his country's wait for a men's gymnastics gold with a world-class floor routine performance. China, the traditional powerhouse in Asian gymnastics, have made a poor start in the men's division, slipping to third in the team competition and not even making the podium in the individual all-round event.
Five-time Olympic gold medallist Zou, 26, went some way to making amends on the floor, surviving a couple of slight early stumbles to score 15.533 with the most difficult routine of the night. Liao Junlin added another men's gold for China on the rings while for the women, Yao Jinnan added an uneven bars gold to her victory in the all-round event on Tuesday, forcing world champion Huang Huidan into second place.
Shen Duo won the freestyle race, Jiao Liuyang topped the butterfly and Fu Yuanhui took the 100m backstroke before China's men combined for a 4x100m freestyle win over Japan. It left China on 57 gold medals near the end of day five, well ahead of South Korea on 26 and on their way to topping the table for the ninth straight Asian Games. Japanese cyclists Seiichiro Nakagawa and Tomoyuki Kawabata took gold and silver in the men's individual sprint.
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