Mao is Nanquan Queen

Despite finishing third in the final discipline, Mao Yaqi of China has won the women's nanquan three events combined title on the final day of wushu routine competition at ASPIRE.

Mao scored 9.65 in the nandao (southern broadsword) behind Angie Tsang of Hong Kong, China, who topped the event with 9.70 and Japan's Erika Kojima, who finished just 0.02 points behind Tsang with a score of 9.68.

But the World No1 clung onto the gold medal with an overall score of 29.29 having topped the opening two events, the nanquan (southern fist) and nangun (cudgel).

Tsang, 2005 nangun world champion, took silver with 28.59 points and Bong Siong Lin of Malaysia grabbed the bronze medal despite coming fifth in nandao with a final score of 28.28.

World No 3 Kojima unluckily missed out on a medal by finishing just 0.01 points behind Bong Siong Lin, who came fifth in nandao, to end up in fourth place.

Huang Yanhui came fifth overall with East Asian Games champion Huang Yanhui of Macau, China paying a heavy price for registering a poor second discipline score of 9.00 points in the nanquan, which pushed her out of medal contention.

15th Asian Games, Doha 2006