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 sports event
FrequencyBiennial
Inaugurated1991
Most recent2019
Organised byIWUF
Websitehttp://www.iwuf.org/competitions/iwuf-official-events/world-wushu-championships/
World Wushu Championships
Simplified Chinese世界武术锦标赛
Hanyu PinyinShìjiè wǔshù jǐnbiāosài

Championships

YearEditionLocationEvents First of the medal table Second of the medal table Third of the medal table
19911 Beijing, China23  China  Japan  Soviet Union
19932 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia24  China  Russia  Hong Kong
19953 Baltimore, United States24  China  Hong Kong  Russia
19974 Rome, Italy25  China  Hong Kong  Russia
19994 Hong Kong, China31  China  Hong Kong  Vietnam
20016 Yerevan, Armenia41  China  Vietnam  South Korea
20037 Macau, China39  China  Vietnam  Russia
20058 Hanoi, Vietnam40  China  Vietnam  Malaysia
20079 Beijing, China40  China  Macau  Vietnam
200910 Toronto, Canada40  China  Iran  Hong Kong
201111 Ankara, Turkey40  China  Iran  Hong Kong
201312 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia46  China  Iran  Malaysia
201513 Jakarta, Indonesia50  China  Indonesia  Iran
201714 Kazan, Russia44  China  Iran  Hong Kong
201915 Shanghai, China44  China  Iran  Hong Kong
202316 Dallas, 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 China (CHN)212122226
2 Iran (IRI)51222396
3 Hong Kong (HKG)486339150
4 Russia (RUS)393334106
5 Vietnam (VIE)365858152
6 South Korea (KOR)234149113
7 Macau (MAC)22363290
8 Malaysia (MAS)22334499
9 Philippines (PHI)17193369
10 Indonesia (INA)15131846
11 Japan (JPN)14384092
12 Chinese Taipei (TPE)8202250
13 Egypt (EGY)8183056
14 Myanmar (MYA)59721
15 Singapore (SGP)4111631
16 Netherlands (NED)43714
17 India (IND)391628
18 Italy (ITA)381829
19 Brazil (BRA)371525
20 Turkmenistan (TKM)3104
21 United States (USA)2162846
22 Ukraine (UKR)2111528
23 Turkey (TUR)292637
24 Romania (ROU)291324
25 France (FRA)242430
26 Kazakhstan (KAZ)21710
27 Soviet Union (URS)2002
28 Spain (ESP)17614
29 Azerbaijan (AZE)17412
30 Canada (CAN)131519
31 Lebanon (LBN)121013
32 Great Britain (GBR)12912
33 Armenia (ARM)12710
34 Tajikistan (TJK)1113
35 Australia (AUS)1023
36 Israel (ISR)1012
37 Belarus (BLR)05611
38 Sweden (SWE)041014
39 Tunisia (TUN)0257
40 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)0224
41 Venezuela (VEN)0213
42 Poland (POL)0145
 Uzbekistan (UZB)0145
44 Mongolia (MGL)0123
45 Bermuda (BER)0112
 Czech Republic (CZE)0112
 Mexico (MEX)0112
 Morocco (MAR)0112
49 Argentina (ARG)0101
50 Algeria (ALG)001111
51 Germany (GER)0044
 Greece (GRE)0044
  Switzerland (SUI)0044
54 Jordan (JOR)0033
 Yemen (YEM)0033
56 Belgium (BEL)0022
 Portugal (POR)0022
 South Africa (RSA)0022
 Sri Lanka (SRI)0022
 Thailand (THA)0022
61 Afghanistan (AFG)0011
 Georgia (GEO)0011
 New Zealand (NZL)0011
 North Korea (PRK)0011
 Peru (PER)0011
Totals (65 nations)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

See also

References

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