Jan 16th 2015

Macau, China: Macau’s seven medal-winners from the Incheon Asian Games were among the athletes

and coaches rewarded for their efforts in 2014 by the Macau government’s Sports Development

Board at a lavish ceremony on Friday night.

The 17th Asian Games were held from September 19 to October 4 at Incheon,Korea, and Macau went

home with seven medals.

There were three silver medals, all in wushu, for Jia Rui, Li Yi and Huang Junhua, and four bronze

medals, for Cheung Pui Si (karate), Paula Carion (karate), Liu Qing (taekwondo) and Wang Junnan

(taekwondo).

The silver medal-winners each received 120,000 MOP (15,000 USD) and the bronze medal-winners

were given 80,000 MOP (10,000 USD). Their coaches received half this amount, resulting in a total

government pay-out for the Asian Games of 1,020,000 MOP (127,500 USD).

Paula Carion, who was competing in her third Asian Games after making her debut at Doha 2006, will

be travelling to the OCA HQ in Kuwait this week to take part in the 2nd Asian Athletes’ Forum from

January 22-24.