By Nick Butler

China continued their recent dominance by leading the way in Hong Kong at the Wheelchair Fencing Grand Prix ©Getty ImagesDecember 24 - China ended a dominant year in typically strong fashion by winning nine of the 13 available titles at the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) Fencing Grand Prix in Hong Kong.


After winning six titles in a table topping performance at the London 2012 Paralympics, and dominating once again at this year's World Championships in Budapest, China raised the bar even higher in Hong Kong by achieving almost half of all the podium positions.

Nowhere was this supremacy more apparent than in the foil event, where Chinese fencers took every available title. 

In the women's event, Jing Rong and Fang Yao took the category A and B titles, while the men's category A was won by Sai Chun Zhong after he fended off teammate Ruyi Ye in an all Chinese final. 

Daoliang Hu then won the category B event, beating Ukraine's Anton Datsko in a repeat of the line-up, as well as the result, from the London 2012 Paralympic final.

Daoliang Hu won again in the men's foil class in a repeat of the final, which he also won, at the London 2012 Paralympic Games ©Getty ImagesDaoliang Hu won again in the men's foil class in a repeat of the final, which he also won, at the London 2012 Paralympic Games ©Getty Images

China duly completed a foil clean sweep by seeing off hosts Hong Kong to win the women's team competition.

Elsewhere, there was plenty more success for China with Jianquan Tian winning 15-12 against Poland's world number one Dariusz Pender in the épée category A event, while Jing won the equivalent women's competition.

Fencers from other countries did enjoy some success however, with France's Marc-André Cratère and Sayunsee Jana of Thailand among other épée winners, while Grzegorz Pluta of Poland tasted victory in the men's sabre. 

But it was China who had the final word when outsider Xufeng Zhou won the women's category A sabre after getting the better of, among others, Russia's world number one Albina Kuramshina.

Fencers will not have to wait long for another chance to battle the Chinese charge with the IWAS Wheelchair Fencing World Cup taking place in mid January in Malchow, Germany.