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The unified Korea team earns another in canoe

2018-08-27 3 Dailymotion

It's been another golden weekend for team South Korea.<br />The national team athletes are looked to keep the streak going today as well.<br />Seo Bo-bin brings us the highlights and outlines what events to watch for. <br /> <br />The first medal news comes from the two Korea's unified canoeing team.<br />In the men's 1,000-meter dragon boat race, the Koreans won a bronze medal in the final event on Monday. <br />The 16-member dragon boat team finished in a time of 4-minutes-36-point-459 seconds. <br />This is the third time the unified Korean team has won a medal at an international sporting event. The first two medals also came from this year's Asian Games, both from the unified women's dragon boat race. <br />With this, the schedule for the unified Korean team is all done for this year's Asian Games. <br /><br /> South Korea's women archers beat Chinese Taipei 5 sets to 3 in the recurve archery event.<br />The South Korean women have been number one for six straight Asian Games going back to Bangkok in 1998.<br />In the compound mixed team event, South Korea had to settle for silver, losing to Chinese Taipei by one point. <br />South Korea will compete in the men's and women's team compound finals on Tuesday. <br /><br /> In other sports, the South Korean women's handball team is going to the finals after defeating Thailand 40-to-13 in the semifinals on Monday.<br />South Korea will face the winner of the other semifinal between China and Japan on Thursday, and if they win it'll be their second win at the Asian Games in a row.<br /><br /> More sporting events are coming up later in the day with the men's baseball team preliminary match at 8:30pm Korea time and the women's long jump finals at 8:40.<br />Seo Bo-bin, Arirang News. <br />

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