Freestyle powerhouse duo Lani Pallister and Sam Short are celebrating five titles between them at the national short course championships.

NAGOYA, Japan — A pair of Olympic medalists in judo will each chase their first Asian Games gold medals on Thursday. Lee Joon-hwan will compete in the men's -81 kilograms, and Huh Mimi will do so in the women's -57kg on Day 2 of judo at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games at Aichi International Arena in Nagoya. Lee is the 2024 Olympic bronze medalist in his weight class, while Huh, a Japanese native and a descendant of a Korean independence fighter, got silver in her division at the same Olympics. Lee took silver at the previous Asian Games in 2023. This is Huh's first Asian Games appearance. The taekwondo competition will begin Thursday with poomsae, a non-contact, pattern demonstration discipline of the traditional Korean martial art. Yun Kyu-sung is considered a gold medal threat in the men's individual poomsae event at Toyohashi Gymnasium in Toyohashi, some 85 kilometers southeast of the main host city, Nagoya. Elsewhere on Thursday, the men's field hockey team will play Malaysia in the semifinals at 7 p.m. Gifu Prefectural Green Stadium in Gifu, just north of Nagoya. South Korea has not bee

OKAZAKI — Kang Yeon-seo won bronze in the women's individual event in compound archery at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday for her second medal of the competition. Kang, 14, defeated fellow South Korean Park Jung-yoon in the bronze medal match by 145-143 at Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square in Okazaki, some 50 kilometers southeast of the main host city, Nagoya. Kang and Park together won the women's team bronze Wednesday. In the individual compound event, archers each take 15 arrows, three arrows in each of the five ends. Cumulative points determine the winner, with the maximum score being 150. At the start of Thursday, Kang knocked off Wunier of China 145-140 in the quarterfinals, while Park beat Fatin Nurfatehah Mat Salleh of Malaysia 145-139 in the quarterfinals. However, in the semifinals, Kang lost to Nurisa Dian Ashrifah of Indonesia 147-143, with her opponent shooting 12 straight 10s at one point. Moments later, Park lost to Amaya Amparo Cojuangco of the Philippines 142-141, unable to overcome an early deficit against the 40-year-old veteran. That set up the all-K

Nam Ji-sung and Park Ui-sung advanced to the men's doubles final in tennis at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday, moving within a win of South Korea's first tennis title in 12 years. Nam and Park defeated Ho Chenjui and Hsu Yu-hsiou of Chinese Taipei 2-1 (7-6 (7-3), 2-6, 11-9) in the semifinals at Higashiyama Park Tennis Center in Nagoya, central Japan. In the final scheduled for Friday, the South Korean team will face either Jiang Fumin and Zhang Tianhui of China or Yusuke Kusuhara and Shunsuke Nakagawa of Japan. Those two teams were to meet in the semifinals later Thursday. South Korea has not produced an Asiad tennis champion since Chung Hyeon and Lim Yong-kyu won the men's doubles gold medal in 2014. South Korea had set out to take home four gold medals in tennis, but all singles players were knocked out well before medal contention in their tournaments, while the women's doubles and the mixed doubles teams were also sent packing early.

Teen prospect Yang Yun-seo kept herself in contention for an individual medal at the midway point of the women's golf tournament at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday. Yang, 18, shot a five-under 65 in the second round with seven birdies and two bogeys at Kasugai Country Club East Course in Kasugai, just northeast of the main host city of Nagoya. At seven-under through 36 holes, Yang is tied for third with the six-time LPGA Tour winner from China, Yin Ruoning. They are six strokes behind the leader, Shannon Xuan Yin Tan of Singapore. Two other South Koreans took a step back, with Kim Gyu-been and Park Seo-jin both shooting 73s. Kim is at 1-over for the tournament, with Park at 4-over. For the team standings, where the two best scores for each team are added each round, South Korea went two-under Thursday to sit tied for fourth at six-under overall. China is leading the team competition at 12-under, one shot better than Singapore and five ahead of India. The golf tournament will conclude Saturday.

South Korea won the gold medal in the men's team 25-meter rapid fire pistol event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday. The South Korean trio of Yoon Seo-yeong, Song Jong-ho and Lee Gun-hyeok finished first with 1,749 points in the event's final at Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Gallery in Toyota, some 25 kilometers east of Nagoya, the main host city. China took silver with 1,740 points, while Indonesia won bronze with 1,720 points. It was South Korea's first gold medal in the event since the 2014 Asian Games, with Song repeating the feat 12 years later as a member of the 2014 gold-medal team. It was also South Korea's second shooting gold medal at the ongoing competition. In the 25-meter rapid fire pistol event, competitors fire five shots at five separate targets within a strict time limit of 8, 6 or 4 seconds, with each athlete firing 60 shots. Three shooters from each country compete for individual scores and rankings in the qualification round, and the scores of the individual team members are combined to determine the cumulative team standings and medals. South Korea's

Compound archer Kim Jong-ho could barely sleep Wednesday night, thinking he had cost South Korea a chance to win the men's team gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. He had shot two 8s in the semifinal loss to India and one more 8 in a loss to Chinese Taipei in the bronze medal match. In compound archery, where athletes have the benefit of mechanical release aids and magnified sights, an 8 is rare at a high-level competition. Some 24 hours later, though, Kim held himself together long enough to capture the gold medal in the individual event at Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square in Okazaki, some 50 kilometers southeast of the main host city, Nagoya. He defeated Chang Cheng-Wei of Chinese Taipei 149-145, falling just one point shy of a perfect score in the 15-arrow battle held over five ends. Kim, 32, is the first South Korean male compound archer to win an Asiad individual gold, a feat that he called "an honor" to accomplish. "I just tried to focus on one arrow at a time. I was so nervous that I kept my head down and stared at my feet between shots," Kim said. "I could not

South Korea's Jung Ha-eun won the gold medal in the women's taekwondo poomsae at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday, giving the country its first taekwondo gold in the ongoing competition. In the women's individual poomsae final at Toyohashi Gymnasium in Toyohashi, some 85 kilometers southeast of Nagoya, Jung won 9.3100 to top the podium. Juliana Mykhail Candelaria of the Philippines won the silver medal with 9.1300 points, while bronze medals went to Thitaree Kaewolanwasu of Thailand with 9.0400 and Yuiko Niwa of Japan with 8.9100. She became the second female gold medalist poomsae practitioner at the Asiad, following Cha Yea-eun who won the event's title at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. South Korea had won one gold and one bronze in the individual event and one silver in the team event since the discipline became an official Asian Games event in 2018. Jung scored 9.320 points in her first routine, receiving 3.700 points for accuracy and 5.620 for presentation. In her second performance, she earned 5.560 points for technique and 3.740 for presentation, for a total of 9.300. He

South Korea's Lee Gun-hyeok won the gold medal in the men's individual rapid fire pistol shooting at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday, becoming the first double gold medalist in shooting. Lee edged out China's Su Lianbofan in shoot-off in the event's final at Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Gallery in Toyota, some 25 kilometers east of Nagoya, the main host city. It is Lee's second gold medal at the ongoing competition after winning the team event earlier in the day. Lee completed South Korea's first sweep of the individual and team title in this rapid fire event in 12 years. The 25m rapid fire final was contested over eight series of five shots, with a four-second limit on each series. Each shot within the 9.7 zone was a hit that counted as one point, and each miss of the zone was zero point. The elimination of the lowest-scoring finalists began after the third series and continued until the eighth series. Lee was leading the final through three series with 13 points, with the other South Korean in the eight-man final, Yoon Seo-yeong, in a tie for fourth with 11 points. However,

Kim Jong-ho struck gold in the men's individual event in compound archery at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday, becoming the first South Korean archery champion at the ongoing competition. Kim defeated Chang Cheng-Wei of Chinese Taipei 149-145 in the final at Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square in Okazaki, some 50 kilometers southeast of the main host city, Nagoya. In the individual compound event, archers each take 15 arrows, three arrows in each of the five ends. Cumulative points determine the winner, with the perfect score being 150. The archery competition continues Friday with team events in recurve, followed on Saturday by individual events in recurve. In two days of compound, South Korea picked up one gold, one silver and two bronze medals. The men's individual compound event previously took place at the 2014 and 2023 Asian Games, and Kim is the first South Korean winner. Kim helped South Korea to the men's team gold and the mixed team silver in 2018 and also the men's team silver in 2023. Kim also exacted revenge on Chang a day after Chinese Taipei beat South Korea in

NAGOYA, Japan — South Korea's Yun Kyu-sung won the gold medal in the taekwondo poomsae event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday, giving the country its second gold in the taekwondo poomsae event. Yun scored 9.3800 points to stand on the top of the podium in the men's individual taekwondo poomsae final at Toyohashi Gymnasium in Toyohashi, some 85 kilometers southeast of Nagoya. His gold marked South Korea's second poomsae gold medal at the ongoing Asian Games, following Jung Ha-eun's gold in the women's individual event earlier in the day. Yun also became the third South Korean male poomsae practitioner to win the Asian Games title, after Kang Min-sung and Kang Wan-jin, since the discipline became an official Asian Games event in 2018. Yun scored 9.340 points in his first routine, thanks to 3.680 points for accuracy and 5.660 points for presentation. For the second routine, Yun received 5.680 points for his technique and 3.740 points for presentation, a total of 9.420 points. His winning score was the average of the two scores. Yun held off Navin Pinthasute of Thailand by 0.1 po

NAGOYA, Japan — South Korea's Huh Mimi won the gold medal in the women's -57-kilogram judo event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, giving her country its first judo gold at the ongoing competition. Huh beat Terbish Ariunzaya of Mongolia by a yuko in the event's final held at Aichi International Arena in Nogoya, central Japan. She stood on the top of the podium in her first Asian Games appearance. It is South Korea's first judo gold medal at the ongoing competition. Bronze medals were shared by Mio Shirakane of Japan and Kim Hyon-a of North Korea. In the final, Huh earned a yuko, the smallest point awarded in judo, through a back-throw just 12 seconds after the competition started. She tried a couple of ground and hand-throwing techniques, but failed to earn points. Despite a shido, or yellow card, she successfully used the remaining time to seal the victory. Huh, 21, was born in Tokyo to a Korean father and a Japanese mother. She competed for Japan earlier in her career but began representing South Korea in 2021 to honor a dying wish of her grandmother. Huh is also a descendant of a Korean

Sport climber Seo Chae-hyun won her second straight Asian Games medal on Thursday with bronze in the women's boulder event. Seo finished third with 70 points, as Zhang Yuetong of China took gold with 85 points and Ai Mori of Japan grabbed silver with 84.8 points at Portmesse Nagoya Exhibition Hall in Nagoya, central Japan. The objective of boulder is to complete the most routes in the fewest attempts on 4-meter walls. Climbers receive 25 points for finishing a route ("Top") and 10 points for reaching a designated midway hold ("Zone"), but lose 0.1 point for each unsuccessful attempt. With four problems presented in the final, the maximum score was 100 points. Seo had the same score as Luo Zhilu of China but won the tiebreaker because she had the higher score in the previous phase, the semifinals, with the perfect 100 points. In the final, Seo earned the full 25 points in each of her first two boulders but scored just 10 points in each of her next two. Seo won silver behind Mori in the combined event at the 2023 Asian Games, where the competition was a mix of boulder and lead, of which the

The South Korean baseball league surpassed 12 million fans in record-breaking style Thursday, as it inched closer to its single-season record. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said the total attendance for this season reached 12,069,596 fans, after four games played Thursday drew a combined 78,622 fans. The KBO added it topped 12 million in 684 games, beating the previous record of 703 games in 2025. Last year, the KBO set its all-time mark with just over 12.3 million fans. With 11 days remaining in the season, the league is on pace to surpass that mark. Through Thursday, KBO teams are averaging 17,646 fans per game. The KBO has cleared every million milestone in record-setting fashion this year. The Samsung Lions faced the Hanwha Eagles before a sellout crowd of 24,000 at Daegu Samsung Lions Park in the southeastern city of Daegu, their league-leading 54th sellout. With 319 sellouts leaguewide, the KBO is closing in on the single-season mark of 331 sellouts set last year.

Isaac Heeney won the Bob Skilton Medal for the third year in a row, as the club boss said the players involved in the Pullman Hotel scandal deserve “the presumption of innocence”.

Nic Maddinson and Sam Harper have been called into Australia's Test squad in South Africa, with the news not good for Josh Inglis and Cameron Green.

Will Ashcroft has added a Merrett-Murray Medal to his resume, pipping Brisbane Lions warhorse Josh Dunkley for the premiership club's best-and-fairest honour.

Isaac Heeney has been named Sydney's best and fairest, but he and fellow Sydney stars were notable absentees from the club's end-of-season awards night.

Trade table hostilities over Merrett coincided with Essendon’s Crichton Medal dinner on Thursday night, where the star midfielder took the top gong again.

Gillingham manager Gareth Ainsworth has provided some positive news on the injury status of striker Ronan Hale ahead of their home match this weekend.

A few days out from trade period, when Hawthorn are expected to recruit Zach Merrett, the Essendon star has won his seventh club best and fairest award.

Sydney Swans chairman Andrew Pridham says the club’s ‘Pullman Five’ players ‘strenuously deny the allegations’ being investigated.

Local hero Taran Amrstrong's late dagger has helped the Tasmania JackJumpers overcome a late wobble to edge Melbourne United in Hobart.

Round eight kicked off in wintry conditions at Ikon Park, with Carlton holding strong when it mattered most.

Carlton have claimed a gritty victory over a resurgent Hawthorn after a first-quarter burst set the Blues up for a crucial AFLW win.

Storm Hunter and Kimberly Birrell have won their opening matches at the China Open but fellow Australian Daria Kasatkina couldn't survive a tight first-rounder.

Australia's Alex de Minaur has progressed to the last 16 at the China Open with a straight sets win over Mariano Navone.

South Africa won’t play a Test against Australia at the famed Wanderers ground in Johannesburg. There’s a good reason for that.

Matt Milnes and Coco Streets earned several accolades at Kent’s end-of-season awards in Canterbury.

New draft rules announced in April made it harder for clubs to land priority talent – such as Cody Walker or Dougie Cochrane, who are widely considered among the best few prospects in this draft class.