South Korea dominated the taekwondo competition at Doha Asiad on Saturday while the Olympic champion Luo Wei of China showed her power and flexibility to clinch the gold medal in the women's 72kg division.
South Korea took two gold medals through Kim Ju Young in the men's 62kg and Kim Bo Hye in the women's 55kg.
"I'm happy because I was rewarded with a gold medal after six months of training, which was very helpful. I had to win with a very strong determination," Kim Ju Young said.
"So far South Korea has done very well in taekwondo. I want all the remaining South Korea taekwondo players to win the gold medals, " Kim Bo Hye said.
Go Tshomlee of Philippines grabbed the silver in the men's 62kg while the bronze medals went to Vu Anh Tuan of Vietnam and Su Tai Yuan of Chinese Taipei.
Beaten by Kim Bo Hye, Hoang Ha Giang from Vietnam won the silver and the bronze medal was shared by Cosette Basbous from Lebanon and Saule Sardarova from Kazakhstan.
After three days' competition, South Korea captured six gold, one silver and one bronze medals from nine competitions. China followed with two gold, one silver and one bronze. Chinese Taipei took the third with one gold, two silver and three bronze.
Olympic Champion Luo Wei won the second gold medal in this sport for China at the Doha Asiad as she beat Alaa Kutkut of Jordan 1-0 in the women's 72kg final.
Luo, 23, overcame Yang Wen Chen from Chinese Taipei in the
quarterfinal and Lee In Jong from South Korea in the semifinal.
Mahroz Sae Bonehkohal of Iran and Lee In Jong of South Korea took the bronze medals.
"Kutkut's attack was a little bit different from the others, so I tried to avoid being hurt by her," Luo said after the
competition.
"My mind was very clear during the games and I also think my
strategy was very good. I want to thank my coach," she added.
Yossef Karami of Iran, bronze medallist in the 2005 worlds, snatched the men 's 84kg division title, beating Park Kyeong Hoon of South Korea 4-3 in the final.
The bronze medal was shared by Arman Chilmanov of Kazakhstan
and Shokirjon Rajabov of Tajikistan.
"I'm happy to win against South Korea. Park is a very good fighter and he never goes backwards," said Karami.