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China's women swept all four finals while China and Japan shared a gold medal each in the men's events. Wu Peng, China's 19-year-old defending champion, was never expected to trouble Japan's top two, Ryuichi Shinata and Takeshi Matsuda, in the 200m butterfly. But after lying back in third place for three laps, he surged past leader Shibata and Matsuda over the last 25 metres to win in 1min 54.91sec. Matsuda took the silver in 1:55.49 with Shibata third in 1:56.44. "We studied videos of these Japanese swimmers and we found their weak point," said Wu. "The Japanese slow down in the last leg, so I knew I had to speed up then." China was the dominant3 power at the last Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, four years ago, winning 20 swimming titles to Japan's 11. But China owed its dominance to its women and Chinese men still lagged behind Japan in 2002. Wu's victory may signal a changing of the guard at the top of Asian men's swimming. But Japan will not be surrendering that positon in a hurry. "Although we didn't get the gold medal, and this is regrettable, we still have five more nights of swimming to come," said a disappointed Matsuda. He knows the best is yet to come for the Japanese men in the shape of breaststroke star Kosuke Kitajima, who led a Japanese revival4 at the Athens Olympics in 2004 when the team won three golds to China's one. China's women were unstoppable here, however, after winning the first gold of the night through Pang5 Jiaying, the Olympic relay silver medallist, in the 200m freestyle in a time of 1:59.26. Compatriot Yang Yu, the 21-year-old defending champion, took silver in 2:00.73, while Maki Mita of Japan claimed bronze in 2:00.78. Victory was sweet for Pang, 21, who beat Yang at the East Asian Games last year over the same distance. Defending champion Zhou Yafei won the women's 100m butterfly in 58.39sec, just outside the Asian record. Zhou, 22, already one of the older performers and feeling the pressure from younger team-mates, beat compatriot Xu Yanwei, who took silver in 58.73 and Li Tao of Singapore, third in 58.96. A bad night for Japan extended to Yuko Nakanishi, who won the silver four years ago in Busan but was fifth here. However, she is expected to mount a stronger challenge for gold on Monday in the 200m in which she won the bronze at the Athens Olympics. Asian champion Ji Liping won gold in the 50m breaststroke, the first time the distance has been raced at the Asian Games, in 31.52sec. She held off Japan's Asami Kitagawa, who finished second, while rising star Wang Qun, only 13, claimed the bronze for China. Great things are expected of Wang, who said she was upset by her slow time. "I am not satisfied by my performance because compared to my personal best it was one second slower," she said. "I felt a little bit tired tonight because maybe I have been competing too much coming into these games." China's all-conquering women went on to win the 4x100m medley6 relay in 4:04.22 from Japan, second in 4:05.14 and South Korea, winning the bronze in 4:09.22. That allowed Zhu Yafei and Pang Jiaying to pick up their second gold medals of the night. Hidemasa Sano won Japan's only gold, when he clinched7 the men's 400m individual medley title in 4:16.18. Compatriot Shinya Taniguchi came second with Han Kyu Chul of South Korea in third.
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