HANGZHOU—Chinese Taipei's Hsu Haohung provided an upset in Men's Individual Go competition, beating the strongly favoured Chinese Ke Jie in the Gold Medal Match. 

On the way to the gold medal, the relatively unknown Hsu beat other notable Go players including 2010 Asian Games gold medallist Park Jeong Hwan from Team Republic of Korea in the quarterfinals, and then another Republic of Korea's athlete Shin Jinseo in his semifinal match.

Hsu was delighted but also modest in victory. "I'm ecstatic. It's like I've realised a dream from childhood," Hsu said. "Objectively speaking, my opponent is a far stronger player. I just wanted to beat the world's best Go players. I really went for it in this match and I'm just delighted I could get the gold in the end."

Ke, who took up the sport at the request of his parents in order to improve his concentration, is one of the youngest players to attain the difficult ninth and highest rank in the sport of Go, achieving it by the age of 18.

He is also the youngest person to win eight major Go tournaments and was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Chinese Go League A three times between 2014 and 2016.

Ke was disappointed with the loss but could yet leave Hangzhou as an Asian Games champion, with the team event still to come.

"I have rarely felt so disappointed. It's hard to accept," said Ke, "I wanted this gold so badly that I made some mistakes. But I hope in the future I can keep going and become Asian Games champion."