A team from Taiwan has won a gold medal at the 2015 World Cheerleading Championships, the first by a Taiwanese group in a major international cheerleading tournament.
The Taiwanese team of around 20 young men and women won the Coed Premier event of the championships at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida on Thursday, beating teams from the United States, Finland, and seven other countries.
Taiwanese teams also finished seventh in the Freestyle Pom Doubles event, 12th in the Hip Hop Doubles event, 11th in the Team Cheer Freestyle Pom event, and 9th in the Team Cheer Hip Hop event.
Taiwan has participated in the Coed Premier event every year since 2010.