Yu Zidi’s Document-Breaking Double, Hojo’s Historic Gold Headline Opening Days in Aichi-Nagoya

China leads the medal desk after the primary two days of competitors on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, propelled by a record-breaking efficiency from 13-year-old swimmer Yu Zidi, whereas host nation Japan claimed the Games’ first gold medal and a photo-finish capturing title.

China topped the standings with 11 gold, 6 silver and three bronze medals after Day 1, forward of Japan’s 6 gold and South Korea’s 3 gold, based on medal tallies revealed by Sportstiger and KhelNow.

Yu Zidi supplied the meet’s standout particular person efficiency, profitable her second gold medal in as many days on Monday with an Asian report of two:06.10 within the girls’s 200-meter particular person medley on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. The time broke the earlier Asian report of two:06.82, set by teammate Yu Yiting, who took silver within the race. Mio Narita of Japan received bronze. Yu completed simply 0.40 seconds off Summer McIntosh’s world report of two:05.70, Swimming World Magazine reported.

“I felt the same. I’m just as excited today,” Yu mentioned, based on the Associated Press. “The result reflects all the hard work I’ve put in during training with my coaching team.”

Yu’s first gold got here a day earlier within the 200-meter butterfly, the place she swam a Games-record 2:05.08. The 13-year-old turned the youngest-ever medalist at a World Swimming Championships in August 2025, profitable bronze with China’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay crew at age 12.

In the lads’s 100-meter freestyle, China’s Pan Zhanle held off South Korea’s Kim Young-beom by four-hundredths of a second, profitable in 47.61 to Kim’s 47.65, with countryman Hwang Sun-woo taking bronze in 47.79. It was Pan’s second consecutive Asian Games title within the occasion.

Japan claimed the Games’ first gold medal of the competitors when triathlete Takumi Hojo received the lads’s particular person occasion on the Gamagori City Triathlon Venue, exiting the water in fourth place and the bike leg in fifth earlier than pulling away on the run. China’s Xirui Zhang took silver, 9 seconds again, and Kazakhstan’s Arlan Zhanabay received bronze.

“From the moment I learned this would be the first medal for Japan, I put pressure on myself going into the race,” Hojo mentioned. “I’m happy I was able to pull off the win.”

The gold was Japan’s fifth consecutive Asian Games triathlon title.

Japan additionally edged India in a one-point capturing ultimate, as Hinata Taichi beat Elavenil Valarivan for gold within the girls’s 10-meter air rifle, 242.4 to 241.2. Valarivan led for many of the ultimate earlier than Hinata’s 10.2 on the final shot beat her 10.1, based on The Tribune. South Korea’s Ban Hyojin received bronze.

Thailand swept all three teqball gold medals on provide, profitable the blended doubles, girls’s doubles and males’s doubles occasions, serving to push the nation to fifth within the medal desk after Day 1.