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Japan retain men's 4x200m freestyle win for 14th time at Asiad
5/12/2006 10:21

Japan lifted their 14th consecutive title in the men's 4x200m freestyle here on Monday at the 15th Asian Games.

Japan, dominating this event for the past 52 years, edged to the victory in seven minutes 14.86 seconds while China, runners-up for the third time running, saw anchor man Zhang Lin, runner-up in200m free, inch close but still fall behind by 0.27 seconds.

South Korea again settled for the third in 7:23.61 as they did in the last two Games.



Xinhua News