South Korea is winning the battle for second place in the table, with 64 golds ahead of Japan's 50, and the home nation are also well-satisfied with their total as the event draws to an end this weekend.

The games' second doping case was another weightlifter, with the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) announcing that Kuwait's Jaber Al-Ajmi had tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid.

The International Weightlifting Federation will decide his punishment, but OCA president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah, who is also Kuwaiti, said he was happy neither positive test had involved a medallist.

The last games in 1994 saw 15 positive tests, 11 of them involving medal-winners.

Crowd warning

There has also been a warning to the Thai football federation from the Asian Football Confederation.

They complained that 70,000 fans attended Thailand's semi-final with Kuwait on Wednesday in a stadium with a capacity of just 60,000.

Much of the attention on day 13 centred on the athletics stadium where both 200m finals saw China beaten into second by Sri Lanka's Damayanthi Darsha in the women's, and Koji Ito of Japan in the men's race.

Darsha's victory gave Sri Lanka its third gold, the country's best result at any Asian Games, and was her own second, following triumph in the 400m.

Asia's fastest man: Koji Ito celebrates a third gold

Ito has already established himself as Asia's fastest man by winning the 100m and anchoring Japan's victorious relay quartet.

He also ran a 10-flat in the 100m semi-finals, and his exploits make him one of the favourites to collect the $100,000 being offered to the games' Most Valuable Player by the OCA.

Supriati Sutono, who was carried off the track on a stretcher after edging India's Sunita Rani by .01 second in the women's 5,000m, gave Indonesia its first games track and field gold since 1962.

Oleg Veretelnikov of Uzbekistan took the decathlon ahead of compatriot and 1994 winner Ramil Ganiev, while South Korea's Lee Jin-taek won the high jump ahead of yet another Chinese silver.

China's Ruiping Ren won gold in the triple jump and Wang Yinhang took the 50km walk as their country brought its tally of first places to 113 in all.

Three of them came in the ancient martial art of wushu, where Wu Gang proved himself the most skilled with a spear, sword and bare fists, in the men's changquan combined competition.

Gao Jiamin won the women's taijiquan, or shadow-boxing, and Liu Qinghua itook gold in the women's changquan combined.

In rowing, China is on course for a third clean sweep of golds after missing just one in 1994.

'Ma's army'

The team were stung by failures at the sport's World Championships in September, and called a special training camp before these Games.

The rowers had advice in training from track coach Ma Junren, whose "Ma's army" of women distance runners set world records in the early 1990s.

The Chinese gained another gold when Li Fang and Chen Li beat South Koreans Cho Yoon-jeong and Park Sung-hee 6-2, 7-6 (7-2) in the women's doubles tennis.

But South Korea took the men's singles through Yoon Yong-il who beat Japan's Satoshi Iwabuchi 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2.

And the Japanese women's basketball team were 93-69 winners of the final against China, while host nation Thailand celebrated the completion of five victories in five finals for its boxers.

Two won on Friday, including Olympic gold medalist, Somluck Kamsing. Uzbekistan and Kazakstan also won two boxing finals each.

Thailand happy with medal haul

That left Thailand with 20 gold medals, well ahead of its original goal of 12, but just behind fourth-place Kazakstan's 21.

Iran boosted its total to nine by taking three golds in freestyle wrestling.

South Korea beat India 2-1 for the women's field hockey gold, and surprisingly upset Asia's top side Japan in the rugby union final.

The South Koreans also beat China 45-44 for the men's saber team gold in fencing competition.

Meanwhile Taiwan's Chao Fong-pang fought back from a 9-4 deficit to beat Japan's Kunihiko Takahashi 15-11 Friday for the gold medal in 9-ball pool competition.