| Wushu at the Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC Code | WSU |
| Governing body | IWUF |
| Events | 15 (men: 8; women: 7) |
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| Note: demonstration or exhibition sport years indicated in italics | |
Wushu has appeared twice at the Summer Olympics as an unofficial exhibition event: in 1936 and 2008. [1]
In 1936, Wushu was exhibited by a team of Chinese athletes at the Olympics in Berlin. [2] In the Official Report of the Games, wushu was called "Chinese Boxing", and was categorized as a national gymnastics demonstration. The demonstration was held on August 11. [3]
In 2008, a wushu tournament was allowed to be held in parallel to the Olympic Games in Beijing. Medals were awarded, though it was not considered an official demonstration sport. [4]
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The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XI Olympiad and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona on the 29th IOC Session on 26 April 1931. The 1936 Games marked the second and most recent time the International Olympic Committee gathered to vote in a city bidding to host those Games. Later rule modifications forbade cities hosting the bid vote from being awarded the games.
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Han Jing is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete who represented Macau.
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Ehsan Peighambari is a wushu taolu athlete from Iran. At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, he became the first Iranian athlete to win a medal in wushu taolu, having won the bronze medal in men's changquan. He also won a bronze medal in men's changquan at the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament, a silver medal in daoshu and gunshu combined at the 2010 World Combat Games, and a bronze medal in changquan at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games. He also won the gold medal in duilian at the 2009 World Wushu Championships.
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