China leads at Youth Games, winning 3 golds first day

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China leads the medals count with three golds after the first day of full competition at the inaugural Asian Youth Games in Singapore.

The games feature Asia's top 14-17 year old athletes, and diver Wu Dongliang of China made history as the first to ever take gold at the Games when he won the boys' three-metre springboard. Silver went to Rashed Al-Harbi of Kuwait, while Cho Sung-in of South Korea took the bronze.

On the women's side China's Liu Jiao was first in the 10-meter platform, followed by Sin Ji Hyang of North Korea and South Korea's Yun Seung-eun.

To track and field...in the boys 1,500 metres, Yemen's Waleed Saleh Ali Layah won in just over over four minutes, with Rahul Kumar of India winning silver. Iran's Amir Beyranvand took the bronze.

China grabbed another gold as Li Zhixuan won the girls' 1,500 metres in 4 minutes 34.44 seconds. Ko Yong Sim of DPRK finished second for silver, while the bronze medal went to Pooja Ramesh Varhade of India.