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World Wushu Championships

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).[1] It has been held biennially since 1991 and is the pinnacle event of the IWUF. The World Wushu Championships also coincides with the IWUF Congress as well as with various committee meetings.[1] This competition additionally serves as the qualification event for the Taolu World Cup and the Sanda World Cup.

World Wushu Championships
GenreGlobal event
FrequencyBiennial
Inaugurated1991
Most recent2023
Organised byIWUF
WebsiteOfficial website
World Wushu Championships
Simplified Chinese世界武术锦标赛
Traditional Chinese世界武術錦標賽
Hanyu PinyinShìjiè Wǔshù Jǐnbiāosài

Championships edit

Year Edition Location Events First of the medal table Second of the medal table Third of the medal table
1991 1   Beijing, China 23   China   Japan   Soviet Union
1993 2   Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 24   China   Russia   Hong Kong
1995 3   Baltimore, United States 24   China   Hong Kong   Russia
1997 4   Rome, Italy 25   China   Hong Kong   Russia
1999 5   Hong Kong 31   China   Hong Kong   Vietnam
2001 6   Yerevan, Armenia 41   China   Vietnam   South Korea
2003 7   Macau 39   China   Vietnam   Russia
2005 8   Hanoi, Vietnam 40   China   Vietnam   Malaysia
2007 9   Beijing, China 40   China   Macau   Vietnam
2009 10   Toronto, Canada 40   China   Iran   Hong Kong
2011 11   Ankara, Turkey 40   China   Iran   Hong Kong
2013 12   Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 46   China   Iran   Malaysia
2015 13   Jakarta, Indonesia 50   China   Indonesia   Iran
2017 14   Kazan, Russia 44   China   Iran   Hong Kong
2019 15   Shanghai, China 44   China   Iran   Hong Kong
2023 16   Fort Worth, United States 36   China   Vietnam   Macau
2025 17   Brazil TBD Future event
2027 18   Philippines

History edit

Starting in 1985, the Chinese Wushu Association began to host the International Invitational Wushu Championships as a ways of standardizing the sport of wushu on a global scale.[2] After the formation of the IWUF at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing,[3] the 1991 World Wushu Championships were quickly organized to be held in the same city. With the desire of reaching a wider global audience and to achieve recognition by the International Olympic Committee, the 3rd and 4th world championships were organized in the United States and Italy, the first major international wushu competitions outside of Asia.[4] At the 6th WWC in 2001, the competition administered doping tests for the first time.[5] In 2007, the 9th WWC served as the qualification of the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament.[6] The same competition along with the 12th and 15th WWCs served as qualification for Wushu at the World Games.The 16th WWC was rescheduled from 2021 to 2023 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[7]

Addition of events edit

The 1st WWC consisted of changquan, daoshu, jianshu, gunshu, qiangshu, nanquan, taijiquan, and men's sanda (originally called sanshou). Starting in 1993 with the 2nd WWC, the IWUF compulsory routines were to be used in taolu competition. In 1999, taijijian, nandao, and nangun were added. That same year, the second set of compulsory routines were approved, and thus in the 6th WWC in 2001, the old and new compulsory routine events were held simultaneously. During the next rendition in 2003, duilian and women's sanda were added. Then in 2005 with the rules revision and new scoring system, compulsory routines were discontinued. The following rendition in 2007 introduced incidental music for taijiquan and taijijian events.

In 2013 after the ratification of the third set of compulsory routines, additional events for compulsory changquan, nanquan, and taijiquan were held at the WWC that year as well as in 2015. The 2015 WWC also introduced traditional events: men's xingyiquan and dadao, and women's baguazhang and shuangjian. These traditional events would reappear at the 14th and 15th WWCs though men's dadao was replaced with shuangdao. Also in the 15th WWC in 2019, the competition consisted of a creative group-set (jiti) event with certified and celebrity judges as a demonstration event. The 16th WWC will also consist of a demonstration event.

All-time medal table edit

Last updated after the 2019 World Wushu Championships.[8]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  China227122241
2  Hong Kong516542158
3  Iran51222396
4  Russia393334106
5  Vietnam365858152
6  South Korea234149113
7  Macau22363290
8  Malaysia22334499
9  Philippines17193369
10  Indonesia15131846
11  Japan14384092
12  Chinese Taipei8202250
13  Egypt8183056
14  Myanmar59721
15  Singapore4111631
16  Netherlands43714
17  India391628
18  Italy381829
19  Brazil371525
20  Turkmenistan3104
21  United States2162846
22  Ukraine2111528
23  Turkey292637
24  Romania291324
25  France242430
26  Kazakhstan21710
27  Soviet Union2002
28  Spain17614
29  Azerbaijan17412
30  Canada131519
31  Lebanon121013
32  Great Britain12912
33  Armenia12710
34  Tajikistan1113
35  Australia1023
36  Israel1012
37  Belarus05611
38  Sweden041014
39  Tunisia0257
40  Kyrgyzstan0224
41  Venezuela0213
42  Poland0145
  Uzbekistan0145
44  Mongolia0123
45  Bermuda0112
  Czech Republic0112
  Mexico0112
  Morocco0112
49  Argentina0101
50  Algeria001111
51  Germany0044
  Greece0044
  Switzerland0044
54  Jordan0033
  Yemen0033
56  Belgium0022
  Portugal0022
  South Africa0022
  Sri Lanka0022
  Thailand0022
61  Afghanistan0011
  Georgia0011
  New Zealand0011
  North Korea0011
  Peru0011
Totals (65 entries)5815537561890

The sum total of gold, silver and bronze medals are not equal for the following reasons:

  • Sanda events changed from awarding one bronze medal to two bronze medals per event in 1993.
  • Occasional none-awarding or sharing of prizes.
  • The 1995 rendition had several winners per each prize in taolu events while sanda events only awarded a gold medal to the winner of each event.
  • Stripped medals are taken into account in the table above.

Statistics edit

Multiple gold medalists edit

Taolu edit

Rank Athlete Country From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Nguyễn Thúy Hiền   Vietnam 1993 2003 7 6 2 15
2 Park Chan-dea   South Korea 1993 2001 6 7 2 15
3 Ng Siu Ching   Hong Kong /   Hong Kong 1991 2001 5 6 3 14
4 Geng Xiaoling   Hong Kong 2005 2015 5 6 1 12
5 Liu Xuxu   Hong Kong 2017 2019 5 3 1 9
6 Lindswell Kwok   Indonesia 2009 2017 5 2 2 9
7 Jia Rui   Macau 2005 2013 4 6 1 11
8 Đàm Thanh Xuân   Vietnam 1999 2005 4 3 - 7
9 He Jianxin   Hong Kong 2017 4 2 2 8
10 Li Fai   Hong Kong /   Hong Kong 1991 2001 4 2 3 9

Sanda edit

Rank Athlete Country From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Mohsen Mohammadseifi   Iran 2009 2019 5 1 - 6
Muslim Salikhov   Russia 2005 2015 5 1 - 6
Bozigit Ataev   Russia 1999 2013 5 1 - 6
4 Shahrbanoo Mansourian   Iran 2011 2019 5 - - 5
5 Hamid Reza Gholipour   Iran 2007 2019 4 2 - 6
6 Mohammad Reza Jafari   Iran 1997 2005 4 - 1 5
7 Hossein Ojaghi   Iran 1997 2009 3 2 1 6
8 Elaheh Mansourian   Iran 2009 2017 3 1 1 5
9 Ramazan Ramazanov   Soviet Union /   Russia 1991 1995 3 - - 3
Kazbek Zhaparov   Soviet Union /   Russia 1991 1995 3 - - 3

Multiple medalists edit

Taolu edit

Rank Athlete Country From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Nguyễn Thúy Hiền   Vietnam 1993 2003 7 6 2 15
Park Chan-dea   South Korea 1993 2001 6 7 2 15
3 Ng Siu Ching   Hong Kong /   Hong Kong 1991 2001 5 6 3 14
5 Geng Xiaoling   Hong Kong 2005 2015 5 6 1 12
6 Wong Weng Son   Malaysia 2015 2 8 1 11
Jia Rui   Macau 2005 2013 4 6 1 11
Dương Thúy Vi   Vietnam 2011 2 6 3 11
Nguyễn Phương Lan   Vietnam 1995 2001 1 5 5 11
Jia Rui   Macau 2005 2013 4 6 1 11

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "World Wushu Championships". International Wushu Federation. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  2. ^ "Chinese wushu steps up to internationalization". Xinhua General News Service. Jinan. Xinhua News Agency. 1986-06-26. 0623039. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
  3. ^ "Wushu, a new sports in asiad". Xinhua General News Service. Beijing. Xinhua News Agency. 1990-09-29. 0929230. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
  4. ^ "USAWKF - Home". United States of America Wushu Kungfu Federation. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  5. ^ "World Wushu Championships Keeps Clean Record in First Doping Test". People's Daily. 2001-12-11. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  6. ^ Feng, Hui (2008-09-26). "The road to the Olympic Games for Wushu". China Daily. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  7. ^ "2021 IWUF Virtual Extraordinary Congress Held Successfully". International Wushu Federation. 2021-07-15. Archived from the original on 2021-07-15. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  8. ^ "Results". International Wushu Federation. Retrieved 2021-10-29.

External links edit

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