Asian Games medal table sees China lead as Hong Kong reaches 35 medals

China leads the Asian Games medal table with 141 gold medals at the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, while Hong Kong is 12th with 35 medals and Macao is 21st with six.

The latest table on Tuesday 29 September shows China on 141 gold, 60 silver and 47 bronze, a total of 248 medals. Host nation Japan is second with 43 golds and 178 medals, followed by South Korea with 24 golds and 95 medals, Uzbekistan with 13 golds and Thailand with 12. China had 132 gold, 53 silver and 45 bronze after Day 9. The Games run until 4 October with 469 events in 43 sports, so the standings are still moving.

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How many medals do Hong Kong and Macao have?

Hong Kong has five gold, 12 silver and 18 bronze medals, placing it 12th behind India, which has the same number of golds but more silvers. The team medalled on nine straight days through Monday. The city’s record Asian Games haul is 53 medals from Hangzhou in 2023, including eight golds.

Macao has one gold, four silver and one bronze. The gold came from wushu athlete Kuong Chi Hin in the men’s changquan on 20 September, with teammate Song Chi Kuan taking silver in the same event. Sou Cho-man’s silver in the women’s changquan came behind Sham.

Latest golds and results from 28 and 29 September

Hong Kong’s men’s team sprint trio of Mok Tsz-chun, To Cheuk-hei and Yung Tsun-ho won bronze on Tuesday 29 September, finishing in 43.507 seconds in the medal race. It was the city’s first medal on the track at these Games.

Squash pair Lee Ka-yi and Tang Ming-hong took Hong Kong’s fifth gold in the mixed doubles on Sunday 27 September, beating teammates Toby Tse Yee-lam and Lai Cheuk-nam 11-8, 11-3 in the final. The winners receive HK$2 million (about US$256,000) as a team under the Jockey Club Athlete Incentive Awards Scheme, while the silver medallists receive HK$1 million (about US$128,000). Hong Kong also took bronze in the Honor of Kings esports event on Monday 28 September, sharing the medal with the Philippines because there was no third-place playoff.

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China’s women’s team won the team sprint on Tuesday in a new Asian record of 45.370 seconds. On Monday, China won the diving titles through Lin Shan in the women’s 1m springboard and Wang Zongyuan in the men’s 1m springboard, and swept the men’s and women’s 4x100m relays in 38.17 and 42.96 seconds.

Table tennis player Lin Shidong won the men’s singles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles on his Asian Games debut as China took six of the seven table tennis golds. Shi Yuhao won the men’s long jump with 8.17m.