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World Wushu Championships

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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

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] 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.[1] This competition additionally serves as the qualification event for the Taolu World Cup and the Sanda World Cup.

Championships

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Year Edition Location Events First of the medal table Second of the medal table Third of the medal table
1991 1 China Beijing, China 23  China  Japan  Soviet Union
1993 2 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 24  China  Russia  Hong Kong
1995 3 United States Baltimore, United States 24  China  Hong Kong  Russia
1997 4 Italy Rome, Italy 25  China  Hong Kong  Russia
1999 5 Hong Kong Hong Kong 31  China  Hong Kong  Vietnam
2001 6 Armenia Yerevan, Armenia 41  China  Vietnam  South Korea
2003 7 Macau Macau 39  China  Vietnam  Russia
2005 8 Vietnam Hanoi, Vietnam 40  China  Vietnam  Malaysia
2007 9 China Beijing, China 40  China  Macau  Vietnam
2009 10 Canada Toronto, Canada 40  China  Iran  Hong Kong
2011 11 Turkey Ankara, Turkey 40  China  Iran  Hong Kong
2013 12 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 46  China  Iran  Malaysia
2015 13 Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia 50  China  Indonesia  Iran
2017 14 Russia Kazan, Russia 44  China  Iran  Hong Kong
2019 15 China Shanghai, China 44  China  Iran  Hong Kong
2023 16 United States Fort Worth, United States 36  China  Vietnam  Macau
2025 17 Brazil Brazil TBD Future event
2027 18 Philippines Philippines
2029 19 Macau Macau

History

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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, respectively, 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

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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

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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)5815537561,890

The sum totals 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

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Multiple gold medalists

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Taolu

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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

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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

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Taolu

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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

See also

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References

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  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.
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