BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- The pairs from Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei carved up the last two gold medals of taolu (routines) events at the 9th World Wushu Championships here on Friday.

Hsu Kai-kuei/Hsiao Yung-sheng/Hsiao Yung-jih of Chinese Taipei survived the breathtaking competition in men's dual events and won the gold with 9.38 points, followed by Tran Duc Trong/Tran Xuan Heip of Vietnam in 9.32 and Aung Si Thu/Myo Min Soe of Myanmar in 9.31.

"We are still surprised to the score but it's just wonderful to become the world champion." said the beaming gold medalists, adding that their good teamwork is the key to the victory.

"Our cooperation is perfect."

In women's dual event, the last gold of taolu event was grabbed by the team of Law Sum Yin, Yuen Ka Ying and Ho Pak Kei from China's Hong Kong with 9.27 points, bettering the runner-up Vietnam team with a slim advantage of just 0.09 point. The bronze went to Han Jing/Huang Yanhui of China's Macao in 9.02.

"Though we formed the team just two months ago, we trained really hard to win a gold here." Yuen said after the close final and also explained the difference between team event and individual events.

"The three of us should perform as a whole, as if one of us is out of form, the other two will also be affected."

After the 5-day taolu competition, all the 22 events have been decided as the medals were shared by 15 countries and regions while 11 of them reaped the golds.

The athletes from Vietnam, Russia, Italy and some other countries and regions showed their competitive strength and great talents to cut a brilliant figure on the world stage and gift their team sole gold of the tournament, which can be a proof that Wushu is becoming increasingly popular among the whole world.

With the conclusion of taolu event, the attention of the tournament could focus on the sanshou (fight) arena as the finals will be fought at all 18 men's and women's weights categories with some eye-catching bouts in store on Saturday.

Wushu, also known as Kungfu or martial arts, is composed of two disciplines -- taolu and sanshou.

Altogether nearly 1,000 athletes from 89 countries and regions, the most in its history, are competing for a total of 40 sets of medals in the six-day tournament, which opened on Sunday night at Beijing Olympics Sports Center.