JAKARTA, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion China retained the artistic swimming team title for the fourth time after topping both the technical routine and free routine at Asian Games here on Wednesday.

China, finished on top with The Beautiful Baikal in the technical routine and continued their lead in the free routine, winning a total of 186.9395 points for the title.

Japan snatched the silver medals with 182.8690 and DPR Korea came third with 170.8475.

China won the team event in artistic swimming at all previous Asian Games and swept all eight gold medals on offer of the sport since 2006.