Lee Seung-hoon wins 3rd gold in Winter Asiad

Vancouver Olympic champion Lee Seung-hoon of South Korea won the men's 10,000-meter speed skating race at the Asian Winter Games in Kazakhstan on Saturday, his third gold in this year's Asiad.

Lee broke his own Asian record to finish in 13:09.74 at the Indoor Speed Skating Stadium in Astana. Lee won gold in the same event at last year's Vancouver Olympics.

It was Lee's third gold medal in this year's Asian Games after finishing first in the 5,000-meter and the mass start events. Lee is the first South Korean long-track speed skater to be crowned three times in one Asian Games.

Lee aims to win a total of four gold medals in Astana.

The silver medal went to Dmitriy Babenko of Kazakhstan with 13:30.27 and the bronze to Japan's Hiroki Hirako with 13:34.97. South Korea's Ko Byung-wook came fourth with 13:39.42. (Yonhap)