Chinese athletes brought home 7 gold medals out of a total of ten in the first day competition of track and field at the 5th East Asian Games on Thursday.

By a strong finish, race walker Yu Wei won the first athletics gold for China at 1:26:46, narrowly beating Japanese Koichiro Morioka in men's 20-km race walking. Li Yanfei added another title

for China in the following women's competition.

On track, Asian athletics powerhouses China and Japan split the four golds. Chinese athletes won women's 200m and 800m while Japanese clinched the two golds in men's competition. Chinese

sprinters Jiang Lan and Han Ling came one-two in women's 200m with 23.92 and 24.24 seconds.

China proved to be dominant on field Thursday, winning three titles out of four, namely men's javelin throw, men's long jump and women's shot put. The only gold dodged China was won by South Korean Lim Eunji in women's pole vault.