Wushu
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1. Wushu Tournament Beijing 2008
Mr. Gilbert Felli, Executive Director of the Olympic Games sent a letter to all the NOCs of the Olympic family on December 7，2006, notifying that there will be a Wushu Tournament Beijing 2008 during the Olympic Games. The dates are August 21 – 24, 2008. The venue will be the Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium. The participants shall be 120 from 25 national federations. The events will include taolu and sanshou for both men and women. These athletes shall be qualified from the 9th World Wushu Championships.
2. World Games
The 9th World Games will be held in Gaoxiong, Taiwan from July 16 to 26, 2009. On behalf of the IWUF, Mr. Wang Xiaolin, Secretary General of the IWUF has been discussing with the President of International World Games Association and CEO of the Organizing Committee of the World Games about wushu issue on many occasions. The Gaoxiong Organizing Committee officially informed the IWUF that it was approved wuushu would be an invitational event of the Games. The detailed information will be notified to all the IWUF members in due course.
3. Pan American Championships
The Championships take place in July 2008 in Brazil.
4. The 2008 TREX Games
TREX Games will take place in BUSAN, Korea in September, 2008.
5. 2nd World Junior Wushu Championships
The 2nd World Junior Wushu Championships will take place in December, 2008 in Bali, Indonesia. The 1st WJWC was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from August 20 to 26, 2006. More than 300 junior athletes from over 40 counties and regions took part in the event. The event was successfully organized. Some Executive Committee members also attended the Championships. We are very pleased to note that the technical level of junior athletes is continuously on the rise.
6. IWUF New Members
Since last year, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Tunisia, Mauritania and Guyana Wushu Federations applied to join in the IWUF. They were accepted as the IWUF provisional members by the IWUF Executive Committee meeting. They will become IWUF full member after they are approved by the IWUF Congress. The Slovenia Wushu Taijiquan Federation was recognized by its national Olympic committee. It has already been affiliated with the European Wushu Federation. It will become an IWUF member, replacing the existing one. The IWUF now has 111 members.
Fact F.A.Q There are currently 116 Official member nations in the IWuF. |
Did you Know? Amy Wong a former Canadian National Team member has been the Female all-round champion in Hong Kong for the past three years, winning 2 bronze medals at the 2004 South East Asian Games, a silver medal at the 2006 World Wushu Championships and a Silver medal at the 2005 East Asian Games |
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