Yang Xia set a two weightlifting world records as China moved to the top of the Asian Games medals table on Tuesday in Bangkok.

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Yang Xia: Two world records

Yang's clean and jerk of 120kgs and total of 212.5kgs gave her gold in the women's 63kgs and bettered the former figures of compatriot Wang Xiufen by 2.5kgs.

Le Maosheng won the men's 62kg title and there was also success for China in the two diving finals and the women's team gymnastics event.

Japan dominate in the pool

But it was a different story in the pool as Japan captured four of the five golds on offer, with the women's 200m freestyle title going to Tsai Shu-Min of Taiwan.

Takashi Yamamoto: Stuck gold for Japan

China's swimmers dominated the 1994 Games but were dogged by allegations of drug taking.

Xiong Guoming, one of seven Chiense swimmers who tested positive for steroids four years ago, looked like winning the men's 400m medley final but was overtaken on the final 100m by Takahiro Mori.

"There have been a lot of changes in the swimming team since 1994. We're missing the more experienced swimmers and current team is quite young," said Xiong.

Takashi Yamamoto swam a Games record 53.34 secs to take the 100m butterfly title and Masami Tanaka edged out Qi Hui of China by 0.27 secs in the women's 200m breaststroke.

Guo Jingjing: Impressed the judgesin the 3m platform diving final

"We had a team meeting on the first night and decided we were determined to beat China," Mori commented.

Japan's fourth gold came in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay.

Success for South Korea

The taekwondo competition saw golds for South Korea in both lightweight competitions.

Lee Sun-hee beat Hsu Chih-ling in the women's final and Kim Byung-uk achieved a 6-0 shut-out over Sung Chen-hisen in the men's event.

Tang Hui-wen went one better than her Taiwanese teammates by winning the women's flyweight gold against Sinlapajarn Usa of Thailand, with Nhat Thong Ho victorious for Vietnam in the men's final.

Football upset

There was a surprise in the football competition as World Cup finalists Iran lost 4-2 to Oman.

It was sweet revenge for Brazilian coach Valdeir Viera, who was sacked by Iran last year after only three games in charge.

"If we played Iran 10 times, I don't think we would win more than one or two," he said.

Ali wins snooker final

Pakistan's Shokat Ali made Asian Games history when he defeated Sam Chong 7-6 in the first-ever snooker final after a match lasting more than five hours.

Ali who was born and still lives in Blackburn, England but qualified to take part because his parents are from Pakistan.

He fought back from 4-1 and 6-5 down to take the title after overcoming Ooi Chin Kay of Malaysia in another tight match at the semi-final stage earlier in the day.