Zhang beats Wang for another Chinese gold
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Top-seeded Zhang Jike beat No. 2 seed Wang Hao on Thursday to give the Chinese two more table tennis medals at the London Olympics.
Zhang knocked off his countryman 4-1 in under an hour for his first Olympic medal.
It was China's fourth medal at these games -- two gold and two silver. On Wednesday, Li Xiaoxia beat No. 1 seed Ding Ning to win the women's table tennis tournament.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Wang won his fourth Olympic table tennis medal and third silver in men's singles.
Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov beat Taiwan's Chuang Chih-Yuan 4-2 in the bronze medal match.
Ovtcharov was bidding to become the first European since Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner in 1992 to win an Olympic gold medal in table tennis but lost to Zhang 4-1 in the morning semifinals. Wang beat Chuang by the same score in the other semi.