China added to their already incredible medal haul at the Beijing 2008 Paralympics by clinching gold in Women's Classes 4/5 and Men's Team Classes 6/8 in the morning session of play in the Table Tennis events at the Peking University Gymnasium.
Ren Guixiang, gold medalist in Women's Individual Class 5, maintained her unbeaten record in the Beijing Paralympics to lead China to the top prize in the Women's Team Classes 4/5.
In the three matches to one victory over Germany she beat both Monika Sikora-Weinmann and Andrea Zimmerer in straight games, while partnering Gu Gai to victory in the Doubles.
The one success for Germany came in the second contest in the fixture. In an absorbing duel, Andrea Zimmerer won one of the closest contests seen in the PKU Gymnasium; she defeated Gu Gai 15-13 in the decisive fifth game.
Gold for China, silver for Germany and Jordan took bronze and a deserved reward for Khetam Abuawad; she finished in fourth place in the Women's Individual Class 5 event.
Facing Serbia in the medal defining game, Abuawad beat both Nada Matic and Borislava Peric, while teaming with Fatmeh Al-Azzam to secure the Doubles in a nail-biting five-game encounter.
The one success for Serbia in their three-one defeat came from Peric in the second match of proceedings against Al-Azzam.
Success for the Chinese women was followed quickly by a victory for the men with gold being secured in Men's Team Class 6-8; victory by the margin of three matches to nil was recorded against Slovakia.
Ye Chaqun opened proceedings with victory over Miroslav Jambor of Slovakia before Chen Gang of China performed heroics. He recovered from a two games to nil in arrears and a fifth game deficit to beat Richard Csejtey before joining forces with his colleague, Ye to win the Doubles and the precious top prize.
It was the second gold medal of the tournament for Chen; earlier in the proceedings he had won the Men's Individual Class.
Silver for Slovakia, bronze for France.
Slovakia beat Israel three-two in the crucial contest despite the efforts of Zeev Glikman. He beat both Stephane Messi and Francois Serignat of France but two defeats for Shmuel Shur and a Doubles reverse for the Israelis cost them a medal.
Bronze went to the French, silver to Slovakia, and to the delight of the home fans, gold to China.
(BOCOG September 16, 2008)