Lee Ha-sung Wins Precious Wushu Silver Medal by 0.003 Points

South Korean wushu star Lee Ha-sung has claimed a valuable silver medal at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

Competing in the men's daoshu and gunshu combined event at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Japan, today (September 23), Lee scored a total of 19.406 points to finish second behind China's Gao Xiaobin, who scored 19.582 points.

Earlier in the morning during the daoshu event, Lee earned 5.00 points for quality of movement, 2.00 points for difficulty, and 2.706 points for overall performance, scoring 9.706 to place second and raise expectations for a podium finish.

In the afternoon gunshu event, he scored 9.700 points with 5.00 for Group A, 2.700 for Group B, and 2.00 for Group C, ranking fourth in the gunshu discipline.

In the final combined results of the two events, Lee secured the silver medal with a total score of 19.406 points, fending off a fierce challenge from Malaysia's Clement Ting Su Wei (19.403 points) by a razor-thin margin of just 0.003 points.

The gold medal went to China's Gao Xiaobin, who swept first place in both daoshu (9.786 points) and gunshu (9.796 points) for a total of 19.582 points, while the bronze medal went to Malaysia's Clement Ting Su Wei.


Lee, who previously won South Korea's first gold medal of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games in the changquan event, has returned to the Asian Games podium 12 years later.

The South Korean wushu national team concluded their campaign at these Games with one silver and one bronze medal, courtesy of Lee's silver and Ahn Hyun-gi's bronze in the men's taijiquan and taijijian event on September 21.

(Photo courtesy of Korea Wushu Association, Yonhap News)
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