From: http://news.rednet.cn/c/2008/11/04/1627922.htm
Editor: Sharon Lee
Source: enghunan.gov.cn
Updated: 2008-11-4 10:53:00

6th National Farmers’ Meeting comes to an end. This evening the curtain is about to fall on the 6th National Farmers’ Sports Meet in Quanzhou. Hunan athletes have made a superb athletic performance, harvesting 13 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 4 bronze medals and outnumbering the 12 gold medals for last one.

Peng Xiuqi, Secretary of Delegation of Farmers’ Meet of Hunan, told the reporter that Hunan athletes did an excellent job, manifesting a perfect sportsmanship as well as the spiritual style of farmers, and achieved double harvests in competition results and spiritual civilization.

84 Hunan athletes took part in 9 fields of matches on this meeting, including field and track, swimming, wushu, dragon boat paddling, dragon dance, lion dance, fishing, Chinese chess and body-building yangge.

Lion and dragon dancing team got a lion share in this big victory with 5 gold medals and 4 silver medals in their pocket, including 2 most valuable all-round champions, which represents that our team has become one of the best in China. Despite of the fact that this was their first time to participate in this game, the dragon boat paddling team from Changde also got a good result, winning 2 gold and 1 silver. 23-year-old player Liu Qunli won three gold medals in the three matches she attended, and 18 year-old Liu Shan from Xinhua exhibited an amazing performance in wushu, capturing the most valuable all-round Woman’s Champion in self-selecting long boxing, which is also the first won all-round gold medal in this field.

Tags: wushu, wushu competition, wushu tournament

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