Meet the disco dancing world champ aged just FIVE!

PROMISING dancer Curtis Yip has proved that he is streets ahead of his rivals by becoming a triple world champion—at just five.

The talented youngster from Rawmarsh was the pick of the bunch at the World Freestyle Disco Championships in Blackpool, waltzing off with the street dance, slow dance and solo freestyle titles.

The rising star had more incentive than most to come out on top at the two-day competition, as his dance teachers had promised to take their whole 30-strong party to the seaside resort’s Pleasure Beach theme park if he won.

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Dance teacher Jeff Walker, who is training Curtis with colleague Lisa Williams at the Dance Classique studio in Eastwood, said: “He went into it dancing for the school dance school and won it for everyone.

“We’re delighted for him, especially as he’s such a nice young lad.

“He danced against older children in the under-tens when he was just four and won, so we knew he was something special.”

Curtis, who picked up the world under-six novice freestyle, world under-six street dance and world under-six novice slow dance trophies, is thought to be the first dancer to become a three-time champion at the competition, which has sections for all ages up to adults.

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Jeff added: “There must have been 30 or 40 kids he was up against but he just danced away with it.”

Curtis’s proud mum Jennifer said that the youngster, a pupil at Ashwood Primary, had started dancing competitively after being spotted “playing about” at a competition his sister Emily was perfoming in.

“They said he should give it a go in the competitions and then, when he realised how big the trophies were, he wanted to win them all,” she said.

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Jennifer, whose elder son with partner Hugo Yip, Justin (10), is also a student at Dance Classique, added: “It’s a bit of a shock that Curtis has won all the titles but of course we’re very proud of him.”