China laid down the marker at the 2018 Asian Games as wushu exponent Sun Peiyuan won the first gold medal in Indonesia on Sunday.

The 28-year-old, who won gold in the daoshu/gunshu event four years ago in South Korea, scored 9.75 points to beat the host nation's Marvelo Edgar Xavier (9.72) and Chinese Taipei's Tsai Tsemin (9.70) to the gold medal in the men's changquan event.

Malaysian wushu stars Yeap Wai Kin, who won two gold medals at the 2017 SEA Games, and Wong Weng Son came eighth and ninth respectively.

They finished ahead of South Korea's Lee Ha-sung (12th), who won the event in 2014.

Malaysia's last Asian Games gold medal in any wushu event was won by Chai Fong Ying in 2010, while they went home empty-handed four years ago.


 

FINAL STANDINGS

1. Sun Peiyuan (China) - 9.75
2. Marvelo Edgar Xavier (Indonesia) - 9.72
3. Tsai Tsemin (Chinese Taipei) - 9.70
4. Song Ch Kuan (Macau) - 9.68
5. Anjul Namdeo (India) - 9.66
6. Yong Yi Xiang (Singapore) - 9.65
7. Ren Sakamoto (Japan) - 9.64
8. Yeap Wai Kin (Malaysia) - 9.63
9. Wong Weng Son (Malaysia) - 9.59
10. Suraj Singh Mayanglambam (India) - 9.51
11. Arstan Urazov (Kazakhstan) - 9.36
12. Lee Ha-sung (South Korea) - 9.31
13. Kyaw Htet Han (Myanmar) - 8.94
14. Bijay Sinjali (Nepal) - 8.25
15. Golab Shah Omari (Afghanistan) - 8.09
16. Saddam Hussein (Yemen) - 7.99
17. Muhammad Abdul Rehman (Pakistan) - 6.70
DNS. Tran Xuan Hiep (Vietnam)