8th October, Tamuning: Japan emerged overall champions of the 7th Asian Senior Bowling Championship at the Central Lanes Bowling Center in Tamuning, Guam winning 4 Gold, 6 Silver and 2 Bronze medals after the Masters finals.

Japan won the Women's Singles Gold, swept the Women and Men Doubles and rounded off a successful championship winning the Women's All Events to amassed a total of 42 points.

Harumi Suzuki gave Japan their first Gold medal when she scored 1108 pinfalls in the Women's Singles, just 8 pins ahead of Jeong Kil Rye and a further 1 pin from Bong Soon Ae both from Korea.

Korea made amends to bag the Men's Gold when Gi Jeong Pyo scored 1234 pinfalls. Yoshihiro Takahashi from Japan took the Silver with 1210 while Bong Sik Im finished third for the Bronze medal with 1200.

In the Women's Doubles, Harumi Suzuki (1165) and Suzue Aoki (984) totalled 2149 to capture Japan's second Gold medal followed by Hwang Wol Young and Cho Soon Nam of Korea who took the Silver with 2108. Another Korean pair of Park Myung Suk and Park Sung Ja settled for the Bronze with 2090.

Meanwhile, Japan finished 1-2 in the Men's Doubles when Michio Matsubara (1250) and Hiroshi Kubo (1228) combined for a total of 2478 to take the Gold with Chikataka Iwai and Masami Hiari with 2456 for Silver. Australia's Barry Morgan and Stephen Bell did well to win the Bronze with 2416.

Korea came back strongly to bag the Women's Team Gold medal with a total score of 4278 ahead of Japan who settled for the Silver with 4134. Australia again finished strongly to take the Bronze medal with 4065. Korea also won the Men's Team Gold medal when they scored 4731, 226 pins ahead of second-place Chinese Taipei on 4505. Australia won their third Bronze medal again finishing third with 4504.

Singles Gold medalist, Harumi Suzuki captured her second Gold medal when she finished top in the Women's All Events with a total of 3351. The win also gave Japan their fourth Gold medal in the championship. Hwang Wol Young and Bong Soon Ae settled for the Silver and Bronze medal respectively. Danilo O. Tuazon of the Philippines bagged the Men's All Events with 3579. Local veteran, Art Gatmen of Guam took the Silver with 3537 while Singles Gold medalist, Gi Jeong Pyo from Korea finished third for the Bronze medal with 3532.

Rod Stewart of Australia bagged the Men's Masters Gold medal with a total score of 3337 winning 11 of the 16 games round-robin matchplay 76 pins ahead of Hiromi Matsubara from Japan with 3261 with Michio Matsubara just 1 pin third on 3260. In the Women's division, Cho Soon Nam of Korea captured the Gold medal with 3113 winning 10 out of 16 games Masters finals. Junko Kuji from Japan settled for the Silver with 3064 while Hwang Wol Young of Korea finished third for the Bronze with 3044.