[Sports Road News]The World Games will stage the Shake Day event on Sunday (17th), and the Hong Kong team has Zhang Jiawei and Zeng Jingyi competing for cards. As a result, Zhang Jiawei defeated his Egyptian opponent 3:1 in the British snooker final and won the Hong Kong team’s first ever gold medal in the World Games; Zeng Jingyi lost the 57kg bronze medal in Muay Thai and failed to add a medal.
The 23-year-old Zhang Jiawei has not met an opponent on the way to the promotion. He has successively defeated his British and Pakistani opponents and reached the semi-finals. On Saturday, he defeated Ali Alobaidli of Qatar to enter the final. Zhang Jiawei met Egypt’s Abdelrahman Shahin in the final, and once once more showed his super class strength and won 3:1, winning the first gold medal for Hong Kong in this tournament and its history. Zhang Jiawei once won the World Youth Championship, won the ninth place in the World Championships in 2018, and also won a third place in the Asian Championships last year.
In terms of Muay Thai, Zeng Jingyi faced Sweden’s Patricia Axling in the women’s 57kg bronze medal battle. She was suppressed by the opponent in both rounds, and finally lost to her opponent with 17:20 points and missed the medal.
To sum up this year’s results, the Hong Kong team won a total of one gold and four bronzes, the best results ever. The four bronze medalists were Liu Mushang in female karate, Yang Ziying, Li Yongrong and Yang Songxi in martial arts.
This article is by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “[World Games]Zhang Jiawei won one gold and four bronzes in Hong Kong’s first Golden Port team to write the best results」
