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Chinese charity helps Mongolia to the medals table
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-02-01 09:17
Teenager Manal Unenbat got Mongolia onto the medals table at the Asian
Winter Games on Wednesday despite delivering by far the worst performance
in the women's freestyle aerials.
Manal Unenbat(R) clinches the bronze medal in the women's freestyle
aerials at Winter Asiad.[Xinhua]
The 15-year-old scored more than 100 points less than any other
competitor but still won a bronze medal because of a competition rule
preventing one nation monopolising the podium.
Unenbat was the lone non-Chinese in a field of five, alongside an Olympic
silver medallist and two other skiers with Olympic experience.
She had less than 12 weeks of training in the sport and would not have
been able to compete at all if it had not been for the generosity of her
country's southern neighbour.
"She's only been doing this for three months," her coach Chagnaa
Dorjgotov told Reuters while Unenbat stood smiling shyly with the medal
around her neck.
"We don't have any facilities for this sport in Mongolia so we have had
to train in China. We are very grateful to the Chinese. She is very
proud."
Turin Olympics runner-up Li Nina won the contest as expected with 194.57
points ahead of the youngest member of the Chinese squad, Xu Mengtao, who
took silver in 184.88, while 61.02 got Unenbat a shared bronze with Zhang
Xin.
Heavy snowfall and temperatures plummeting to minus 20 degrees Celsius
made for difficult conditions at Beida Lake and Li was pleased just to
walk away with China's 10th gold of the Games.
"It is not an easy win in such bad weather. It was not my best form but I
am happy with the result," she said.
Mongolia became only the fifth nation to win a medal in Changchun as the
East Asian powers China, Japan and South Korea continued to dominate
along with Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan won their first golds of the Games when Oxana Yatskaya won the
women's 5km classical and Maxim Odnodvortsev led a Kazakh podium sweep in
the men's 30km free.
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