Filipino Rene Sornito Catalan took home his country's first-ever wushu sanshou gold medal, defeating Vietnam's Phan Quoc Vinh in two rounds of combat on Thursday 14 December.

Dmitriy Torlopov and Dmitriy Kaltenberger became the first paddlers to win the same event at three consecutive Asian Games when the Kazakhstan pair crossed the line first in the men's K2 500m at West Bay Lagoon in a time of 1:36.390.

Korea's Jang Sun Jae became a Games triple gold medallist by winning the men's Madison crown with partner Park Sung Baek, who also collect his third medal of Doha 2006.

Japan won softball gold after they eased to a 7-0 victory over surprise finalists Chinese Taipei. The match was stopped in the middle of the fifth innings by the mercy rule.

Korea will try to become only the third team to retain their volleyball crown if they beat China when they take their neighbours in the men's final at Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall.

Zheng Jie stepped up her game in the second set tiebreak to claim her second gold medal of the 15th Asian Games, partnering Yan Zi to a 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) victory in the women's doubles final at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.

A strong second half to the race saw Liu Haitao complete a golden double with victory in the men's K1 500m race, pipping fast-starting Sergey Borzov of Uzbekistan to the line at West Bay Lagoon.

Asian champion Li Yan of China won the women's points race - the first of three finals contested on the last day of track cycling at ASPIRE Hall 1 at Sports City.

Asian superpowers China and Japan will face off for gold in the men's water polo competition at Al-Sadd Sports Club on 14 December. IR Iran and outgoing champions Kazakhstan will clash for the bronze.

After dual domination in the nanquan competition China struck wushu double gold again to take both the men's and women's changquan three events combined crowns.

The wrestling will culminate with the biggest and best bout of the Games so far as the super heavyweights round off five days of fantastic mat action.

Lin Yue and Zhou Luxing led the way in qualification for the men's 10m platform as China looked to complete a clean sweep of gold in diving.