South Korea won its first Asian Games gold in kurash on Tuesday, when 21-year-old Kim Min-young took the women's +87-kilogram title at the Aichi-Nagoya Games in Japan. Kim beat Shih Liu Li-ling of Chinese Taipei 5-0 in the final at Aichi Prefectural Martial Arts Hall in Nagoya. No South Korean had won kurash gold since the sport joined the Asian Games programme in 2018.

Kurash is a wrestling-style sport from Central Asia. Athletes score by throwing opponents onto their backs, and a clean throw, known as a khalol, wins the bout outright. Ground techniques are banned. Kim, who switched from judo, won her round of 16 and quarterfinal bouts by khalol, then edged Arailym Shegenova of Kazakhstan 1-0 in the semifinals. In the final she collected her five points after Shih was given two penalties, called dakki.

The gold followed a day on which South Korea won silver medals in shooting, diving and kurash but no gold, its first goldless day since the medal race began on Sept. 20. It remained third in the table with 21 golds, behind host Japan and China, which had 132. On Monday, Mo Su-min took silver in the women's 78-kg kurash event, becoming the first South Korean woman to win an Asiad kurash medal. She lost the final to Pokizakhon Kamoldinova of Uzbekistan.

In the women's 25-meter pistol team event, Yang Ji-in, Oh Ye-jin and Bong Seo-rin took silver with 1,735 points, eight behind China. Yang was leading the individual qualification but failed to fire within the three-second window in the rapid-fire stage and scored zero. The mistake cost the team a chance at gold and kept her out of the individual final. In diving, held in Tokyo, Kim Yeong-nam won silver in the men's 1m springboard with 373.30 points, behind China's Wang Zongyuan. That ended a run in which China had taken gold and silver in every Asian Games 1m springboard event since its 1990 debut.

Elsewhere in shooting, India's Neeru Dhanda, 26, from the northern state of Haryana, won the women's individual trap gold with a score of 28, an Asian record according to The Hindu. She also helped India take team silver behind China. The result made her the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games medal in trap or skeet.

For South Korea, the kurash title marks a first in a sport where it is still a newcomer, while the silvers show its depth across several disciplines. Badminton finals in the women's singles and doubles were also set up for the coming days.