Luo Huan of China receives congratulations from teammate after her Uneven Bars competition of Artistic Gymnastics Women's Qualifications & Individual All-Around Final at the Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia on Aug. 21, 2018. Luo took the silver medal of Women's Individual All-Around.(Xinhua/Wang Lili)
JAKARTA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's new star gymnast Chen Yile won the country's 12th straight championship in women's all-around event at the Asian Games here on Tuesday.
Chen, 16, the winner of the title in 2017 national championship, reached her professional new high in her Asiad debut with stunning routines of both high difficulty and execution scores. She ranked the first places in balanced beam and floor exercise among all four rotations, pocketing the gold with 55.950 points in total.
Her teammate Luo Huan, 18, won the silver medal with 54.550 points, underlining China's dominance on the sport. Kim Su Jong from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) earned 53.600 points to win the bronze medal.
All-arounders Lin Chaopan and Xiao ruoteng won China a gold and a bronze medal respectively in men's event on Monday.
According to the artistic gymnastics competition rules at this Asian Games, qualifications for team and apparatus finals, and individual all around finals have been merged into one single competition.
On women's team event, eight teams were qualified into the finals. China was ranked the first, followed by the DPRK and South Korea. The other five teams are Japan, Chinese Taipei, Malaysia, India and the host Indonesia.
The team event finals will begin on Wednesday.
