Hong Kong's Shek Wai-hung scooped a shock men's vault gold Thursday as South Korea's Olympic champion Yang Hak-Seon stumbled to silver on a night of slips and spills in the Asian Games gymnastics. Chinese teenager Yao Jinnan continued her stellar Games, winning her fourth gold medal in the women's floor routine, while North Korea's Kim Un-Hyang benefited from rivals' falls to triumph in the balance beam.
Five-time Olympic champion Zou Kai of China outclassed the field in the high bar, taking gold from Japan's Yusuke Saito, with Masayoshi Yamato third. The talk before the competition had been about the men's vault clash between Yang and his North Korean rival Ri Se-Gwang, the Asian Games champion in 2006. But Ri suffered a calamitous first vault, badly misjudging his landing on a forward tumbling dismount to end up with his face on the mat. Vaulting first, the unfancied Shek, 23, laid down a marker for his illustrious rivals with two wonderfully executed vaults for a score of 15.216.