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 recent2019
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
Year Edition Location Events First of the medal table Second of the medal table Third of the medal table
19911China Beijing, China23  China  Japan  Soviet Union
19932Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia24  China  Russia  Hong Kong
19953United States Baltimore, United States24  China  Hong Kong  Russia
19974Italy Rome, Italy25  China  Hong Kong  Russia
19995Hong Kong Hong Kong31  China  Hong Kong  Vietnam
20016Armenia Yerevan, Armenia41  China  Vietnam  South Korea
20037Macau Macau39  China  Vietnam  Russia
20058Vietnam Hanoi, Vietnam40  China  Vietnam  Malaysia
20079China Beijing, China40  China  Macau  Vietnam
200910Canada Toronto, Canada40  China  Iran  Hong Kong
201111Turkey Ankara, Turkey40  China  Iran  Hong Kong
201312Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia46  China  Iran  Malaysia
201513Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia50  China  Indonesia  Iran
201714Russia Kazan, Russia44  China  Iran  Hong Kong
201915China Shanghai, China44  China  Iran  Hong Kong
202316United States Fort Worth, United StatesTBD Future event

History

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. After the formation of the IWUF at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, 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.[2] At the 6th WWC in 2001, the competition administered doping tests for the first time.[3]

The 2021 WWC was rescheduled to 2023 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Addition of events

The 1st WWC consisted of changquan, daoshu, jianshu, gunshu, qiangshu, nanquan, taijiquan, and men's sanda (originally called sanshou). Starting in 1993, 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 2001 WWC, the old and new compulsory routine events were held simultaneously. During the next rendition in 2003, duilian and women's sanda were added. Due to the major taolu rules revision in 2005 which introduced a new scoring system, compulsory routines were discontinued that year. 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 2017 and 2019 renditions though men's dadao was replaced with suangdao. Also in 2019, the competition consisted of a creative group-set (jiti) event with certified and celebrity judges. The official judges graded performances out of a total of 10.000 according to regular IWUF judging procedures and celebrity judges gave a score out of 10.000 based on personal preference, and the medals for this event were not officially counted as part of the overall medal count.

All-time medal table

Last updated after the 2019 World Wushu Championships.[4]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China212122226
2 Iran51222396
3 Hong Kong486339150
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)5635517531867

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

Taolu
Rank Athlete Country From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1Nguyễn Thúy Hiền Vietnam1993200376215
2Park Chan-dea South Korea1993200167215
3Ng Siu Ching Hong Kong /  Hong Kong 1991200156314
4Geng Xiaoling Hong Kong 2005201556112
5Liu Xuxu Hong Kong 201720195319
6Lindswell Kwok Indonesia200920175229
7Jia Rui Macau2005201346111
8Đàm Thanh Xuân Vietnam1999200543-7
9Li Fai Hong Kong /  Hong Kong 199120014239
10He Jianxin Hong Kong 201720194-26

Sanda
Rank Athlete Country From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1Mohsen Mohammadseifi Iran2009201951-6
Muslim Salikhov Russia2005201551-6
Bozigit Ataev Russia 1999201351-6
4 Shahrbanoo Mansourian Iran 201120195--5
5Hamid Reza Gholipour Iran 2007201942-6
6Mohammad Reza Jafari Iran199720054-15
7 Hossein Ojaghi Iran199720093216
8 Elaheh Mansourian Iran 200920173115
9Ramazan Ramazanov Soviet Union /  Russia 199119953--3
Kazbek Zhaparov Soviet Union /  Russia 199119953--3

Taolu
Rank Athlete Country From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1Nguyễn Thúy Hiền Vietnam1993200376215
Park Chan-dea South Korea1993200167215
3Ng Siu Ching Hong Kong /  Hong Kong 1991200156314
4Geng Xiaoling Hong Kong 2005201556112
5Jia Rui Macau2005201346111
Dương Thúy Vi Vietnam 201126311
Nguyễn Phương Lan Vietnam1995200115511
8Zheng Tian Hui Hong Kong2009201735210
Daria Tarasova Russia 2003201524410
Angie Tsang Hong Kong 1999200514510

See also

References
  1. "World Wushu Championships". International Wushu Federation. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  2. "USAWKF - Home". United States of America Wushu Kungfu Federation. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  3. "World Wushu Championships Keeps Clean Record in First Doping Test". People's Daily. 2001-12-11. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  4. "Results". International Wushu Federation. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
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