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Wind plays havoc, Chinese smash records in Doha(Reuters)Updated: 2006-12-04 10:44
He beat India's Manavjit Singh Sandhu into silver and the world number one was far from pleased. His main gripe? The weather. "This is ridiculous," he stormed. "Too windy. How can I have a strategy in these windy conditions?" In the pool, teenager Park Tae-hwan broke his own Asian record for the men's 200m freestyle to win South Korea's first swimming gold in a time of 1:47.12. Kazakhstan's Vladislav Polyakov beat Japan's double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima in the men's 50m breaststroke to win his first major title. "I had a great start and I was so surprised to see myself first," said Polyakov, who trains in the United States at the University of Alabama. China lacked the same punch they had in the first night's racing, winning only two gold medals compared to the five they bagged on Saturday. Qi Hui used her powerful breaststroke to pull away from the field and win the 400m individual medley in a time of 4:38.31, while China's women 4x100 relay took the second gold ahead of Japan. At the bowling alley Malaysia got on the board when Esther Mei Lan Cheah took gold in the women's singles, while Nyamkhuu Damdinsuren won gold for Mongolia in Judo.
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