By Kim Boram
NAGOYA, Japan, Oct. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Song Da-bin won the gold medal in the women's heaviest weight class in taekwondo at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday, giving the country the first taekwondo gold at the ongoing competition.
Song beat Mu Wenzhe of China 2-1 in the final of the women's +67-kilogram taekwondo at Toyohashi Gymnasium in Toyohashi, some 85 kilometers southeast of Nagoya.
It is South Korea's first taekwondo gold at the Asian Games in Japan.
South Korea's Song Da-bin (L) competes in the final of the women's +67-kilogram taekwondo at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games at Toyohashi Gymnasium in Toyohashi, some 85 kilometers southeast of Nagoya, on Oct. 3, 2026. (Yonhap)
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