The World Wushu Championships (WWC) is an international sports championship hosted by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) for the sports of wushu taolu and sanda (sanshou). The tournament has been held biennially since 1991 and is the pinnacle event of the IWUF. The World Wushu Championships also coincides with the IWUF Congress and various committee meetings. This competition additionally serves as the qualification event for the Taolu World Cup and the Sanda World Cup.
Hei Zhihong is a retired competitive wushu athlete from Hong Kong.
The 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament was a wushu competition which was held from August 21 to 24, 2008 at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Beijing, China. The tournament was organised by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), the International Wushu Federation (IWUF), and the Chinese Wushu Association (CWA), and was held in tandem with the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Mohammed Hussein Al-Ashwal is a Yemeni Wushu martial artist. He was born on 20 October 1983 in Muharraq, Bahrain. He won bronze medals in the men's 48 kg sanshou category at both the 2003 and 2005 World Wushu championships.
The 1993 World Wushu Championships was the 2nd edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Stadium Negara in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from November 21 to November 27, 1993. For the countries in Asia, this was the qualifying event for the 1994 Asian Games.
Zhao Qingjian is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete who is originally from Shandong. Through his numerous successes in national and international competitions, he established himself as one of the greatest wushu taolu athletes of the 2000s.
Gao Jiamin is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete and taijiquan practitioner originally from China. She achieved an impressive competitive career throughout the 1990s and became known as the "Queen of Taiji". Gao has won 32 gold medals in a variety of competitions including the World Wushu Championships, Asian Games, East Asian Games, National Games of China, and various other international and national competitions.
The Asian Wushu Championships is a continental wushu championship hosted by the Wushu Federation of Asia (WFA), the official continental representative to the International Wushu Federation. The competition is open to the 37 member nations of the WFA and their respective national teams. Unlike other continental wushu competitions which are held every two years, the Asian Wushu Championships is held every four years to make way for wushu at the Asian Games.
Wushu was contested by both men and women at the 1993 East Asian Games in Shanghai, China from May 14 to 16, 1993. China won gold in five of the six events organized, with Japan bagging the sixth gold.
Khaing Khaing Maw is a former wushu athlete from Myanmar. She is a one-time world champion and a double silver medalist at the World Wushu Championships. She also won the gold medal in women's taijiquan at the 2001 Southeast Asian Games. At the 2002 Asian Games, she won the gold medal in women's taijiquan, Myanmar's first medal in wushu at the Asian Games. Her last competition was at the 2004 Asian Wushu Championships where she won a gold medal in taijiquan.
Daisuke Ichikizaki is a former wushu taolu athlete from Japan. Through many of his international victories, he has established himself as one of Japan's most renowned wushu athletes of all time.
Li Fai is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete from Hong Kong. She was a four-time world champion and a medalist at the Asian Games and the East Asian Games.
Liu Qinghua is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete from China. She is commonly regarded as one of the greatest female wushu athletes of all time. She is a two-time world champion and Asian Games gold medalist.
Yuan Xindong is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete from Shanxi, China.
Masaru Masuda(増田勝) is a former taijiquan athlete from Japan. He won gold medals at the 1993 East Asian Games and the 1994 Asian Games, being the first Japanese wushu athlete to do so at each respective multi-sport event. He also won a silver medal in taijiquan at the 1993 World Wushu Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since his competitive career, he assumed a position at Waseda University and has published works on taijiquan.
The International Invitational Wushu Championships, also known as the International Wushu Festivals, were a series of international wushu competitions held from 1985 until the formation of the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) in 1990. These competitions were the first ever international wushu competitions, and preceded the World Wushu Championships which started in 1991.
Zhao Changjun is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete from China. He is regarded as one of the greatest wushu athletes of all time. In wushu circles, it is commonly said the 1970s belonged to Jet Li, the 1980s to Zhao Changjun, and the 1990s to Yuan Wenqing.
Song Chi Kuan is a professional wushu taolu athlete from Macau.
The 1987 Asian Wushu Championships was the first edition of the Asian Wushu Championships. It was held in the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Japan, from September 26 to 27, 1987. The Wushu Federation of Asia (WFA) was founded at this competition, and a bid was drafted for wushu's successful inclusion at the 1990 Asian Games.
The 1989 Asian Wushu Championships was the 2nd edition of the Asian Wushu Championships. It was held on December 16 and 17, 1989 in British Hong Kong.
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