By <font color="#0070c0">Kang Gahui </font>and <font color="#0070c0">Kim Young Shin
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Team Korea continues to win medals at the Asian Games 2018 Jakarta-Palembang, which marked its half-way point on Aug. 25.

The unified Korean team took a historic first medal in international sports in the canoe TBR 200 m women’s race. The medal taken by the joint team does not belong to either South or North Korea, but to a separate “Korea” team. The two Koreas made joint teams for women’s basketball, canoe dragon boat racing and rowing.

In ju-jitsu, held at the Asian Games for the first time this year, Sung Kira became the Asian champion in the newaza women’s -62 kg category, defeating her Singaporean rival Lien Tain En Constance 4-2.

The men’s bowling team of six scored 8,540 points, beating Hong Kong, which scored 2,175 points, by a large margin. The men’s bowling team of six took its third consecutive gold medal in the Asian Games after ones at the 2010 Asian Games Guangzhou and at the 2014 Games in Incheon.

With two additional gold and four bronze medals won on Aug. 25, Team Korea is in third place on the medals table with a total of 25 gold, 26 silver and 33 bronze medals.

Please find below Day 8 results.

Ju-Jitsu
―Newaza Women’s 62 kg, Sung Kira wins gold medal
―Newaza Men’s 94 kg, Hwang Myengse wins bronze medal

Bowling
―Men’s Team of Six, Kang Heewon, Kim Jongwook, Koo Seonghoi, Park Jong Woo, Choi Bokeum and Hong Hae Sol win third Asian Games gold medal for Korea

Canoe
―Canoe TBR 200 m Women, unified Korea Team takes first ever gold medal in this sport at an international sporting event

Karate
―Men’s Kata, Park Heejun wins bronze medal

Shooting
―25 m Rapid Fire Pistol Men, Kim Junhong wins bronze medal

Weightlifting
―Women’s 69 kg, Mun Yura wins bronze medal

Archery
―Both Recurve Men’s Team and Women’s Team advance to the finals

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