China's Yang Wei took his fourth gold medal by sharing the parallel bars
title with South Korean Kim Dae Eun at the Doha Asian Games here on Wednesday.
World champion Yang Wei went to the final as top qualifier. He performed the
routine of 6.7 in A score, the highest difficulty among the finalists, to take
in 16.300 points, levelling Kim Dae Eun for the top honor.
Yang's a little step on dismount cost him the opportunity as the sole top
podium finisher. Kim carried out a superb and flawless action of 6.6 difficulty
to win South Korea the second gold at the Asiad.
Shun Kuwahara of Japan was third on 16.075 as the starter of the apparatus.
Kuwahara qualified in the second place.
Yang has won three gold medals at the Games already before the bars' final
and now tied fellow Chinese Li Ning's eight golds as the most prolific male
gymnast in the Asian Games history.
Yang qualified for the final with 16.250 points, only 0.100 ahead of
Kuwahara. He improved his score to 16.300 during the all-around final and
continued the trend at the apparatus final.