All about Yang Haoran's win, Kosuke Hagino's quest, Juanita Mok Uen-Ying's achievement

Zhao Ruozhu highlighted China's dominance in shooting at the Asian Games, clinching the country's 200th gold medal in the discipline by winning the 10m air rifle event.

Highlights of day three of the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang on Monday (times GMT):

0634 CHINA'S ZHAO CLINCHES LANDMARK SHOOTING GOLD

Zhao Ruozhu highlighted China's dominance in shooting at the Asian Games, clinching the country's 200th gold medal in the discipline by winning the 10m air rifle event.

The 19-year-old's score of 250.9 fell short of the world record she set in April (252.4) but was good enough for a new Games record.

Zhao finished ahead of silver-winning South Korean Jung Eunhea (248.6) and Mongolia's Gankhuyag Nandinzaya (227.4) who secured bronze.

0505 YANG ON TARGET FOR CHINA

China's Yang Haoran won the men's 10m air rifle event with a Games record of 249.1 to help the Asian giants improve their gold medal tally to nine.

Yang bettered the efforts of India's silver medallist Deepak Kumar and Taiwan's Lu Shao-chuan.

0430 GOOD MORNING FOR JAPAN IN SWIMMING HEATS

Olympic champion Kosuke Hagino began his quest to defend both men's medley titles in Jakarta with the fastest time of one minute 59.76 seconds in the 200m heats on a promising morning for Japan at the Gelora Bung Karno Aquatic Centre.

His teenage compatriot Rikako Ikee is another of Japan's hopes for gold at the 2020 Olympics and she showed good form in the 100m freetyle heats with the top time of 54.33 seconds.

Ikee was also fastest in the 50m butterfly heats as she looks to add to the relay gold she won on Sunday night.

Reigning women's 200m breaststroke champion Kanako Watanabe was another Japanese to top the timesheets, clocking 2:27.05 to launch her title defense.

China's Xu Jiayu, however, again pipped Ryosuke Irie in their 50m backstroke heat after beating his Japanese rival to gold in 100m event on Sunday.

Both eased into the final but were second and third fastest behind Indonesia's I Gede Siman Sudartawa, who topped the times with a swim of 25.01 seconds.

Local Aflah Fadlan Prawira swam a Games record in the single men's 800m heat but only because it was the inaugural running of the event at the Asian Games.

His time of 8:03.87 was not enough to get him into Monday evening's final and his record is likely to be obliterated when the big guns join the fray. China's Sun Yang will go for the second of five possible gold medals in Jakarta in that race.

0333 INDONESIA'S KWOK WINS WUSHU GOLD

Lindswell Kwok claimed the first gold of day three and Indonesia's second of the Games in the women's taijijian event to keep the hosts on track to meet their target of 16.

Hong Kong's Juanita Mok Uen-Ying won silver while Agatha Chrystenzen Wong of the Philippines took bronze.

0245 ACTION UNDERWAY ON DAY THREE

Medals were up for grabs in artistic gymnastics, equestrian, fencing, shooting, swimming, weightlifting and wrestling among other sports as the third day of the 18th Asian Games opened on Monday.

China topped the medal tally after Sunday's action with seven gold, five silver, and four bronze. (Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar; editing by Ian Ransom)

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