World Games: China extend gold-medal lead through Bai Yulu, Han Yu, Shang Chunsong
Current world snooker champion, former pool and parkour global winners give hosts three more wins, with billiards hoping to add more
China extended their lead at the top of the World Games medal table on Wednesday after adding three gold medals through the current women’s world snooker champion, a three-time world champion, and a former Olympics gymnastics bronze medallist and also ex-world champion.
Playing in the six-red snooker event, reigning world champion Bai Yulu beat Thailand’s Narucha Phoemphul 2-0 at the Civil Aviation Flight University of China’s Tianfu Campus Gymnasium, after ousting Wendy Jans in the semi-finals on Tuesday.
Later at night, Han Yu, a three-time world nine-ball women’s pool champion, beat the Philippines' Chezka Centeno 7-6 in the women’s pool final, with compatriot Liu Shahsha finishing third.
And Shang Chunsong, competing under the gymnastics programme in Chengdu, won the parkour freestyle women's event at the Xinglong Lake Hubin Arena.
Scoring a total of 24.7 points, the 2024 world freestyle champion finished ahead of Japan’s Nene Nagai, who scored 22.9 points, and Sara Banchoff Tzancoff of Argentina, who finished with 20.6.
The 29-year-old Shang, from Zhangjiajie in Hunan province, was part of the bronze-medal-winning Chinese artistic gymnastics team at the 2016 Rio Olympics.