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Asian Games: Juanita Mok takes silver behind Lindswell Kwok, Yuen Ka-ying wins bronze for Hong Kong in wushu

Mok finishes second in the Taijiquan and Taijijian all-round competition, while Yuen is third in the Nanquan-Nandao

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Hong Kong’s Juanita Mok Yuen-ying performs in the Taijijian event. Photo: Reuters
Nazvi Careem
Hong Kong’s Juanita Mok Yuen-ying on Monday won silver medal in the Asian Games women’s wushu Taijiquan and Taijijian all-round competition at the JIExpo complex in Jakarta, while Yuen Ka-ying took bronze in her event.

The 23-year-old Mok scored 9.71 points for her Taijijian routine on Monday behind Indonesian favourite Lindswell Kwok, who scored 9.75 – it was a similar story in Sunday’s Taijiquan when Mok finished behind Kwok, ensuring second place overall and the silver.

These are Hong Kong’s second and third medals of the Asian Games after the women’s 4x100m swimming relay team secured bronze on Sunday at the Aquatic Centre.

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Yuen Ka-ying. Photo: HKSF&OC
Yuen Ka-ying. Photo: HKSF&OC

Yuen, 29, finished with the bronze medal in the women’s Nanquan and Nandao combined. She scored 9.68 to finish third in Monday’s Nandao routine behind China’s Tang Lu (9.74) and Taiwan’s Tsai Wen-chuan (9.69).

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Together with Sunday’s Nanquan score of 9.59, which gave her fifth in the discipline, Yuen was able to snatch third place behind gold winner Tang and Uzbekistan’s Darya Latisheva. She became Hong Kong’s third medal winner, hot on the heels of Mok’s silver.

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