Bahrain's Kenya-born runner Ruth Jebet regains gold after being disqualified

Bahrain's Ruth Jebet (C) gestures as India's Lalita Shivaji Babar (L) and China's Li Zhenzhu (R) look on at the podium at the medal ceremony on the final of the women's 3,000m steeplechase athletics event during the 17th Asian Games at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium in Incheon on September 27, 2014.

Teenage steeplechaser Ruth Jebet had her Asian Games gold medal restored on appeal Sunday as dominant China passed 100 wins with a week's competition still to go.

Kenya-born Jebet, 17, was left in tears when she was stripped of her big victory late on Saturday as she waited at the podium to receive her gold medal.

But after late-night wrangling the Bahraini, who was disqualified for stepping inside the track during her Games record run, was awarded gold after all.

"The jury reviewed all of the protests by the three Olympic committees and they confirmed that there was no violation of the rules and the gold medal will be given again to Bahrain runner Ruth Jebet," the Olympic Council of Asia's (OCA) Games director Haidar Farman told AFP.

China's Li Zhenzhu came second and Lalita Babar of India and their teams had also lodged protests.

Bahrain Olympic Committee secretary-general Abdulrahman Askar said disqualifying Jebet during the victory ceremony was an "injustice" to the athlete.

"How can they withdraw the medal during the ceremony? It is the first time in my life that I have seen such an incident," he said.

The incident overshadowed the start of the athletics competition, which resumed on Sunday with Wang Zhen breaking the men's 20km race walk Games record to take gold for China.

Liu Xiuzhi made it a Chinese double by winning the women's race as China reached 101 gold medals during day nine, four years after they won a record 199 in Guangzhou.

China suffered a major blow however when they lost 75-67 to Iran in the men's basketball quarter-final stage. China have contended the last nine Asiad finals and won seven of them.

Wang Yihan downed Chinese rival Li Xuerui 11-21, 21-17, 21-7 in a thrilling women's final to take the women's singles badminton gold.

- 'Basically jogging' -

Next on court were China's Lin Dan and world number one Lee Chong Wei for what will be the long-standing rivals' final match at the Asian Games.

Malaysia's Lee is making his final attempt at winning Asiad gold and he will be desperate to beat his long-time nemesis and reach the final.

Maya Kawahara top-scored with 10 points as Japan thrashed India 70-37 to reach the women's basketball semi-finals.

At the Samsan World Gymnasium, China also made it into the semis with a 71-57 victory over Kazakhstan.

Jong In-Gwan scored in the third minute of injury time Sunday as North Korea beat United Arab Emirates to secure a place in the football semi-finals.

Thailand eased into the last four, beating Jordan 2-0 through goals from Chanathip Songkrasin and Thawikan Kroekrit.

On the track, Qatar's 5,000 metres gold medallist Mohamad Al-Garni set up a 1,500m final clash against fellow Moroccan-born runners Hamza Driouch of Qatar and Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain.

Al-Garni said he was confident of picking up a second gold in his specialist event, after coasting to finish second behind Ramzi in his heat in 3:52.92.

"I was taking it very easy, basically jogging," Al-Garni told AFP. "I think I can win tomorrow. I just need to be smart."

Later, China's Zhang Peimeng will seek to become the first Asian-born athlete to run 100 metres in less than 10 seconds in the showpiece men's sprint final.