China's Yuan Yanping won the country's fourth judo gold at the women's +70 kg with three straight ippons on Tuesday.
The 32-year-old Yuan, an English major graduate from the Beijing International Studies Univerty, proved her all-around ability with her first Paralympic gold after outgunning Brazilian Deanne Silva within 70 seconds.
![Yuan Yanping of China wins the Women's Judo +70kg gold.[Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20080910/000bcdb95f1d0a319daa22.jpg "Yuan Yanping of China wins the Women's Judo +70kg gold.[Xinhua]") |
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Yuan Yanping of China wins the Women's Judo +70kg gold.[Xinhua]
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Yuan's victory, together with a silver from the men's +100 kg event by Wang Song, lift China to the top of the judo medal tally with four golds, two silvers and one bronze. Algeria was ranked the second with two golds and one bronze and Brazil in third with one gold, two silvers and two bronzes.
Yuan, a hot favorite after winning the title at the last two World Championships in 2006 and 2007, finally had her "extremely tough" training over the past nine months paid off.
The woman from the coastal city of Dalian in northeastern Liaoning Province is pretty homesick as she has not see her families for 11 months.
"The training is so hard that my tears could make a river except that my coach didn't know it," said Yuan. "There is no other way to success except hard practice. I have discovered my potentials following the strict requirements of my coach. Surely, I have a lot of gratitude for my coach, but I would also like to thank myself for being hard-working."
Though having clear plan for her future career, Yuan said she would like to continue working in sports.
"I want to do some contribution to the sports for the disabled people in China," she said.