JAKARTA — Hong Kong's Sarah Lee Wai-sze said she overcame a jittery night to defend her sprint crown at the Asian Games on Friday, ending her track cycling campaign with two gold medals.

Lee, who set a tournament-record 10.583 seconds in Thursday's qualifying round, beat South Korea's Lee Hye-jin in two straight races at the Jakarta velodrome.

The 31-year-old former Olympic keirin bronze medalist said she had been nervous yet confident of a strong showing going into the continental games final.

"I was really very nervous. I did good on that (track) but you really don't know what will happen. Last night I couldn't sleep very well," Lee told reporters.

"But I was more confident and stronger than the others and that's why I performed well. I went step by step to the gold medal.

"I tried to calm down and control my mental emotions to do my best," Lee, who won the keirin final earlier this week, said.

Lee, who was also part of Hong Kong's silver-winning sprint team in Jakarta, said she would target gold at the 2020 Olympics.

South Korea's Cho Sun-young got bronze on Friday after edging out China's Zhong Tianshi — who won team sprint gold at the 2016 Olympics — in a determined 2-1 finish.

In the men's keirin, it was disappointment for Malaysia's Azizulhasni Awang who settled for bronze a day after shaving off his moustache to celebrate a sprint gold. Angsuthasawit Jai raced to gold in the keirin final with Japan's Nitta Yudai taking silver.

"I just went into it as strong as I could and I came out lucky," Jai, who earlier represented Australia, told AFP. "Very unexpected. Was confident to get a medal but not gold. Halfway through the race I had energy in my legs and I went for it.

"I want to go to the World Cups and World Championships. And I want to stay in the Thailand team for as long as I can."

Jai, 23, competed in track cycling for Australia at junior and national levels, but in September 2017 chose to begin representing Thailand. Azizulhasni said he had been on good form but still failed to win more than a bronze.

"That's the beauty of keirin," he said. "This is one of my best performances as well. Let's now focus on the Tokyo Olympics," he added.

Hong Kong won the men's madison gold after their riders pushed South Korea into second position in the final few laps of the relay event. Japan took bronze.

The Hong Kong duo of Cheung King-lok and Leung Chun-wing lived up to their top billing as they accumulated 59 points at the end of lap 16, five ahead of Korea.

The relay final also witnessed a crash between riders from Iran and Thailand but there were no serious injuries. South Korea won gold in the women's madison with Hong Kong taking silver and China settling for bronze.

Ladon gives Philippines

shot at boxing gold

Meanwhile, Manny Pacquiao's Philippines remained on course Friday to win their first Asian Games boxing gold since 2010 when Rogen Ladon swept into the flyweight final with a unanimous 5-0 points victory.

But there was there was agony later for Ladon's compatriots, light flyweight Carlo Paalam and middleweight Eumir Felix Marcial, who both lost hairline 3-2 split decisions and will have to settle for bronze.

Rising power Uzbekistan were the lords of the ring on semifinal day, with all six of their fighters reaching Saturday's finals in front of the watching International Boxing Association (AIBA) interim present and fellow Uzbek Gafur Rakhimov.

Ladon used his classy left hand to good effect as he outboxed Thailand's Tongdee Yuttapong. But the 24-year-old from the southern island of Negros Occidental has some patching up to do after suffering a cut on the bridge of his nose, to add to an existing cut that reopened over his left eye.

"We went in at the same time and of course he's shorter, so he hit me with his head," Ladon told AFP, his face swathed in butterfly plaster stitches.

He said it wouldn't affect him, even with just a 24-hour turnaround until the final. "I'll manage, it's the last hurdle."

Ladon, who fought at the 2016 Rio Olympics at light flyweight, will face the awkward Jasurbek Latipov in Saturday's final who scored a 4-1 win over Azat Usenaliev of Kyrgyzstan. "He's been boxing a long time and I have seen some of his fights, said Ladon.

Proud boxing nation the Philippines, which has produced multiple world champions such as the legendary eight-weight champion Pacquiao and Nonito Donaire, had high hopes for Marcial.

Behind after the first round against Uzbekistan's Israil Madrimov, he pulled out a huge final stanza where he forced a standing eight count but it proved not quite enough. Marcial revealed after that he had been fighting with a damaged hand.

"My knuckle is very swollen," Marcial told AFP pointing to his right hand. "I damaged it sparring before the Asian Games so I was training with only one hand.

"I'm very happy to get a medal with this swollen hand, but many Filipinos expected I would get to the final. So this hurts."

Tongdee's loss was the start of a torrid day for Thailand, whose five men's semifinalists all lost.

Women's lightweight Seesondee Sudaporn provided the only bright spot with a 5-0 unanimous decision against Indonesian fan favorite Huswantun Hasanah that had the packed Jakarta International Expo auditorium rocking.

With a large section of Thai "superfans" banging their drums — one even dressed as a pantomime horse — and the home fans chanting back, the arena reached fever pitch.

Seesondee's final opponent was decided in a battle between North and South Korean fighters that also saw a rollicking atmosphere. It was the South's Oh Yeon-ji who prevailed, taking a unanimous decision against Choe Hye Song.

The North have two other women's finalists. Flyweight Pang Chol Mi won a 4-0 split decision over Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Tam. She will meet China's Chang Yuan, who took a 4-1 split decision against Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting.

North Korea's Jo Son Hwa received a featherweight walkover against Taiwan's Huang Hsiao-wen and will face China's Yin Junhua for the gold medal.

India's boxing team suffered a blow before a punch was thrown on semifinal day when Vikas Krishan was forced to pull out with an eye injury sustained in Wednesday's quarter-final, scuppering his chances of repeating his 2010 gold-winning performance.

Abilkhan Amankul of Kazakhstan was the recipient of a walkover as a result and goes straight into Saturday's final where he will face Madrimov.

India's Amit Panghal made amends for the loss of Vikas when he squeaked past Paalam in a fight that was genuinely too close to call. "It was tougher than I expected," Amit told AFP. He will face yet another Uzbek, Hasanboy Dusmatov, to decide light flyweight gold. — AFP