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Day One in Incheon, KOR 20/10/2014

2014 Incheon Wheelchair DanceSport © IPC Wheelchair All three gold medals from the Wheelchair DanceSport competitions of the Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games on Monday 20 October were won by hosts South Korea.

Jaewoo Lee and Hye-Jong Yang, the current world # 2 in combi standard class 1, took the crown once again with impressive scores in all five of their dances.

Kazakhstan’s Ardak Otarbayev and Aidana Beglenova were consistent with their dancing to take silver. Hong Kong’s Wah Keung Ma and Hei Man Ho were third.

A near perfect Waltz and Quickstep saw the world # 3 couple of Joon-Young Park and Moon-Young Choi take gold in the combi standard class 2. Only one judge scored them lower than one point across both dances. The Chinese Taipei pairing of Hsiang-Yi Hsieh and Chun-Lan Yang picked up silver and Japanese couple Hiroyuki Kayano and Shigeko Koyano bronze.

Jong-Chul Choi and Moon-Young Choi, with Moon-Young this time dancing with a different partner, stole the show by ranking first in all rounds in the duo Latin class 2. Their Samba, Rumba, Pasa Doble and Jive all received the highest marks possible, except for one judge. The silver and bronze were won by Chinese Taipei dancers. Wen-Sheng Juo and Yi-Jung Huang placed second whilst Tsun-Sheng Kao and Hsin-Yu Lin were third.

Wheelchair DanceSport competitions continue at the Ganghwa Dolmens Gymnasium tomorrow 21 October and feature 27 couples from seven countries.