Chusovitina gets Asian Games silver in vault at age 43

here was a silver lining for seventime Olympian Oksana Chusovitina at the Asian Games.

The 43-year-old Uzbekistan gymnast took silver in the vault, one-tenth of a point behind 16year-old South Korean Yeo Seojeong.

Yeo, who was born 10 years after Chusovitina made her Olympic debut and won gold in the team event in '92 in Barcelona, won with 14.387 points.

Chusovitina, who won the vault at the 2002 Asian Games and took silver medals in the event at the 1994 and 2014 editions, is competing with the intention of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 — at 45.

At the other end of the spectrum, 15-year-old Shardul Vihan became India's youngest medalist in shooting at the Asian Games when he took silver in the double trap final behind Shin Hyun-woo of South Korea.

Japanese teenager Rikako Ikee has been a star in the pool, and picked up her fifth gold medal and seventh overall of the meet to give her country a slight lead over China for swimming superiority.

With six finals remaining in swimming, Japan leads the medals table with 17 golds, followed by China on 16.

The 18-year-old Ikee swam the butterfly leg of Japan's winning 4x100-meter medley relay, and is tied for second for the most gold medals and overall medals won by a competitor at a single Asian Games.

Only North Korea shooter So Gin Man, who won seven golds and eight medals overall in 1982, has done better. Ikee still has one race to go in Jakarta.

So does Chinese backstroker Xu Jiayu, who won his fourth gold with victory in the 200.