BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) — Listed here are the most recent Chinese language sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. Hong Kong, Macao, Guangdong to co-host China’s fifteenth Nationwide Video games in November subsequent yr
China’s fifteenth Nationwide Video games can be held from November 9 to 21, 2025 in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, introduced the organizing committee, which was established on April 11.
Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will co-host the fifteenth Nationwide Video games for the primary time in Nationwide Video games historical past, the opening ceremony can be held in Guangzhou and the closing ceremony can be in Shenzhen.
The Video games will characteristic 34 aggressive sports activities and 23 mass sports activities actions. The vast majority of occasions will happen in Guangdong. Hong Kong is ready to host eight aggressive sports activities occasions, together with males’s basketball, monitor biking, and fencing. In the meantime, Macao will host 4 aggressive sports activities occasions, corresponding to desk tennis and girls’s volleyball.
2. China wins 11 golds at weightlifting World Cup
Chinese language weightlifters win 11 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze medals and shattered 5 world information on the Worldwide Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup in Phuket, Thailand that concluded on April 11.
Olympic champion Li Wenwen swept three golds within the girls’s +87kg class, and her teammates Liu Huanhua set new world information within the clear and jerk and in complete to win two gold medals within the males’s 102kg class.
Li Fabin (males’s 61kg) and Luo Shifang (girls’s 59kg) additionally bagged two golds whereas Hou Zhihui (girls’s 49kg) and Shi Zhiyong (males’s 73kg) added one every.
3. Xinjiang ahead Abdusalam wins CBA MVP award
Xinjiang Flying Tigers ahead Abdusalam Abdurexit was named the 2023-24 Chinese language Basketball Affiliation (CBA) league common season Most Beneficial Participant (MVP) on April 8.
Having performed all 52 common season video games, together with 51 begins, Abdusalam averaged 19 factors, 10.2 rebounds and 4.4 assists as Xinjiang improved from seventeenth place final season to the runner-up place throughout this marketing campaign.
Xinjiang additionally had its head coach Qiu Biao named Coach of the Yr.
4. Zheng leads China to unbeaten run in tennis Billie Jean King Cup Asia-Oceania Group I
Spearheaded by world No. 7 Zheng Qinwen, China took the highest spot in Asia-Oceania Group I with a 5-0 report and thus locked a spot within the Billie Jean King Cup playoffs in November.
China fended off Chinese language Taipei on April 10, earlier than beating India, New Zealand, Pacific Oceania and South Korea on the next days.
The playoff will characteristic eight shedding groups on this yr’s BJK Cup Qualifiers and eight groups from regional Group I occasions. The 16 groups can be trying to earn a spot within the BJK Cup Qualifiers subsequent yr.
5. China tallies six golds at inventive swimming World Cup
Hosts China topped the medal tally with six golds because the World Aquatics Inventive Swimming World Cup concluded on April 7 on the Nationwide Aquatic Heart in Beijing.
Eighteen-year-old Xu Huiyan was one of the vital shining stars as she claimed three gold medals in girls’s solo technical, solo free and group technical. Twins Lin Yanhan/Lin Yanjun triumphed within the girls’s duet technical, and Ji Heyue/Guo Muye gained blended duet technical.
Within the group free, the one occasion with the participation of the hosts’ prime swimmers, China eased previous Australia to pocket the gold.
