South Korea defeated Chinese Taipei 89-81 for bronze medal in men's basketball at the 18th Asian Games on Saturday. Ricardo Ratliffe, the US-born player with South Korean citizenship, led everyone with 37 points and 17 rebounds at GBK Istora. He shot 15-of-24 from the field while playing the entire 40 minutes. South Korea, the 2014 Asiad champion, lost to Iran 80-68 in the semifinals on Thursda...

South Korea's Cho Gwang-hee defended his Asian Games gold medal in the men's kayak single (K1) 200-meter race Saturday. Cho finished the race in 35.373 seconds at Jakabaring Rowing & Canoeing Regatta Course in Palembang, the co-host city of the Asian Games with Jakarta. Cho edged out Sergii Tokarnytskyi of Kazakhstan by 0.372 second. Yingjie Mervyn Toh of Singapore took the bronze medal at 36.3...

JAKARTA -- Cyclist Na Ah-reum became South Korea's first quadruple gold medalist of the 18th Asian Games on Friday. Na and Kim You-ri teamed up for 76 race points in the women's madison, beating Pang Yao and Yang Qianryu of Hong Kong by 15 points at the Jakarta International Velodrome. China finished third with 31 points. Na earlier won the individual road race and time trial on the road and pi...

South Korea captured its seventh Asian Games gold medal in women’s handball on Thursday. South Korea defeated China 29-23 in the gold medal game at the 18th Asiad at GOR Popki Cibubur in Jakarta. The women‘s handball has been contested at Asian Games since 1990 and South Korea has missed the top of the podium just once -- in 2010. South Korea defeated China 33-24 on Aug. 21 in a preliminar...

JAKARTA (AFP) -- A joint Korean women’s basketball team slammed Taiwan 89-66 to reach the Asian Games final on Thursday, helped by Las Vegas razzmatazz and some good, old, northern grit. Roared on by around 100 fans waving Korean unification flags, North Korean Ro Suk Yong joint top-scored with 17 points in a blow-out victory for the defending champions in Jakarta. The Koreans advance to face...

South Korea failed to reach the men’s basketball final of the 18th Asian Games after suffering an 80-68 loss to Iran on Thursday. Naturalized player Ricardo Ratliffe, whose Korean name is Ra Gun-ah, had his fifth double-double with a game-high 37 points and 12 rebounds in the men‘s basketball semifinal at Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Istora arena in Jakarta, but it wasn’t enough for South Korea to o...

An Chang-rim gave South Korea its fifth judo medal of the 18th Asian Games on Thursday, taking home silver in the men‘s under-73 kilogram event. An, world No. 7, lost to his nemesis from Japan, Shohei Ono, by a waza-ari (half point) in extra time in the final at Jakarta Convention Center Plenary Hall. South Korea won four medals, including two gold, on Wednesday, the first day of the judo com...

South Korean cyclist Lee Ju-mi won gold in the women‘s individual pursuit event at the 18th Asian Games on Thursday, giving the country its third gold from the track. Lee defeated Wang Hong of China in the two-rider final at Jakarta International Velodrome. In the individual pursuit, riders start on the opposite ends of the track. The race is 3,000 meters long for women, and the race ends whe...

South Korea defeated Japan 5-1 in a key baseball game on Thursday that kept alive the hope of a third straight Asian Games gold. South Korea launched three solo home runs and pounded out 14 hits in the super round game at GBK Baseball Field in Jakarta. South Korea will face China on Friday at the same venue in the final super round game and must beat the heavy underdog to have a chance to rea...

JAKARTA -- South Korea collected four medals out of four weight divisions on the first day of judo events at the 18th Asian Games on Wednesday, led by gold medals from a pair of Olympic runners-up. Jeong Bo-kyeong got the ball rolling by winning the very first judo final in Jakarta, capturing the women's under-48kg title over Ami Kondo of Japan. She won her golden point with a shoulder throw in...

CIBINONG, Indonesia -- South Korea defeated Vietnam 3-1 to reach the men's football final at the 18th Asian Games on Wednesday. Lee Seung-woo grabbed a brace at Pakansari Stadium in Cibinong, south of Jakarta, on Wednesday to put South Korea's under-23 side one step closer to their Asiad title defense. The defending champions will next face the winners of the match between Japan and the United ...

PUNCAK, Indonesia -- South Korean paragliders topped the women's team cross country event at the 18th Asian Games on Wednesday to claim their first gold medal. The team of Baek Jin-hee, Jang Woo-young and Lee Da-gyeom scored a total 4,924 points after five rounds to edge Japan, which had 4,851 points, out for gold medal. Paragliding became an official medal sport for the first time at this year...

JAKARTA -- South Korea's Kim Jin-woong won a gold medal in the men's soft tennis singles at the 18th Asian Games on Wednesday. Kim beat Alexander Elbert Sie of Indonesia 4-2 (5-3, 8-6, 6-8, 4-1, 3-6, 4-2) in the final at the Jakabaring Sport City Tennis Court in Palembang, the co-host city of the Asian Games with Jakarta, to grab his first Asiad gold. Kim, who topped the 2015 World Championship...

South Korea settled for silver in the men's table tennis team event at the 18th Asian Games on Tuesday. South Korea was blanked by China 3-0 in the men's table tennis team final match at Jakarta International Expo Hall B in Jakarta. It was South Korea's seventh-straight silver at the Asian Games against the dominant Chinese squad, which now has 10 Asiad gold medals in men's team table tennis. ...

South Korea won a gold medal in the women's team pursuit track cycling event at the 18th Asian Games on Tuesday. The team of Na Ah-reum, Kim You-ri, Kim Hyun-ji and Lee Ju-mi topped the competition at Jakarta International Velodrome in Jakarta after edging China in the final with an Asian Games record time of 4 minutes, 23.652 seconds. The previous Games record was 4:24.796, set by South Koreans...