2023 World Wushu Championships

The 2023 World Wushu Championships was the 16th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, from November 16 to 20, 2023.^[1]

2023 World Wushu Championships
Venue	Fort Worth Convention Center (capacity: 13,500)
Location	Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Start date	November 16, 2023
End date	November 20, 2023
Competitors	499 from 72 nations
Website	Official website
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Development and preparation

Selection process

During the 2019 World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, China, the 15th IWUF Congress met to vote on the host city for the 16th WWC. At the conclusion of the competition, it was announced that the next edition of the world championships would be held in 2021 in Dallas, Texas, United States.^[2][3] This would mark the first time a major international wushu competition was held in the United States since the 1995 World Wushu Championships.^[4][5] The competition will be organized by the United States of America Wushu Kungfu Federation (USAWKF) under Anthony Goh.^[4]

The 16th WWC was also meant to serve as preparation for the wushu event at the 2022 World Games which was also hosted by the United States.^[6]

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Shortly after the 15th WWC, the COVID-19 pandemic spread internationally. Numerous wushu competitions including the 2020 World Junior Wushu Championships and the 2020 Taolu World Cup were postponed or cancelled.^[7][8] The IWUF left no updates on the situation regarding the 16th world championships for months, but on July 15, 2021, the IWUF virtual congress announced that the 16th WWC would be postponed to 2023.^[9] Qualification for wushu at the 2022 World Games was then done by ranking at the 2019 WWC.^[10]

Over a year later on September 15, 2022, the USAWKF announced that the 16th WWC would officially take place in November 2023 at the Fort Worth Convention Center.^[4]

The championships

Opening ceremony

In a press conference in August 2023, it was revealed that performers in the opening ceremony would include tai chi enthusiasts of various ethnic groups from the United States as well as the Yunnan provincial wushu team.^[11]

Changes to competition events

A number of competition event changes were revealed in the competition regulations of the 16th WWC. Men's and women's changquan now consisted of a preliminary and final round, and athletes also were allowed to use different routines for both rounds.^[12] Instead of traditional wushu events like in recent prior championships, there would be a "creative & nandu skills" non-medal demonstration event.^[12]

Marketing

The official name of the competition, the "16th World Wushu Championships," was renamed to the "HYX 16th World Wushu Championships" to reflect the IWUF's financial partnership with the Hengyuanxiang (HYX) Group [zh] which began in early 2018.^[13]

After a design contest, the logo and theme for the competition were unveiled on November 16, 2022, with the theme being "Solidarity, Peace, Friendship."^[14] The top part of the logo depicts a warrior in the form of a ribbon and the bottom depicts the Texas Longhorn.^[15] Months later on August 6, 2023, the official medal designs based on the official logo were revealed.^[16] The mascots of the competition were also revealed to be "Dillo" the armadillo and "Striker" the Longhorn.^[17]

Competition schedule

Taolu

All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6:00)

Date	Start Time	Carpet 1	Carpet 2
November 17	9:00	Men’s nangun	Men’s taijiquan
	14:00	Men’s daoshu	Women’s nandao Women’s taijijian
November 18	9:00	Men’s nandao	Women’s nangun Men’s taijijian
	14:00	Men’s changquan	Women’s changquan Women’s taijiquan
November 19	9:00	Men’s nanquan	Women’s jianshu Women’s nanquan
	14:00	Men’s gunshu	Women’s daoshu Men’s qiangshu
November 20	9:00	Men’s jianshu	Women’s gunshu Women’s qiangshu
	14:00	Closed	Men’s duilian Women’s duilian Men’s creative event Women’s creative event

Sanda

All times are (UTC-6:00)

Date	Start Time	Lei Tai 1
November 17	9:00	Men’s & women’s round of 32
	14:00	Men’s round of 16
	19:00	Men’s round of 16
November 18	9;00	Women’s round of 16
	14:00	Men’s quarterfinals
	19:00	Women’s quarterfinals
November 19	9:00	Men’s quarterfinals & women’s semifinals
	14:00	Men’s semifinals
November 20	9:00	Men’s finals
	14:00	Women’s finals

Medal table

  *   Host nation (United States of America)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	15	0	0	15
2	Vietnam (VIE)	5	3	3	11
3	Macau (MAC)	5	2	4	11
4	Hong Kong (HKG)	3	2	3	8
5	Singapore (SGP)	2	4	2	8
6	Malaysia (MAS)	1	6	4	11
7	Philippines (PHI)	1	4	1	6
8	Indonesia (INA)	1	3	7	11
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	2	1	4
	South Korea (KOR)	1	2	1	4
11	Italy (ITA)	1	1	2	4
	Lebanon (LBN)	1	1	2	4
13	Tunisia (TUN)	1	1	0	2
14	Australia (AUS)	1	0	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	1	2
16	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	3	4
	United States (USA)*	0	1	3	4
18	India (IND)	0	1	2	3
19	Brunei (BRU)	0	1	1	2
20	Bermuda (BER)	0	1	0	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
26	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	2	2
	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	2	2
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
	Turkmenistan (TKM)	0	0	2	2
30	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (33 entries)		40	41	53	134

Medal table

Men's taolu

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Changquan	Wong Weng Son  Malaysia	Seraf Naro Siregar  Indonesia	Clement Ting  Malaysia
Daoshu	Liu Zhaohe  China	Clement Ting  Malaysia Jowen Lim  Singapore	Shared silver
Gunshu	Jowen Lim  Singapore	Seraf Naro Siregar  Indonesia	Clement Ting  Malaysia
Jianshu	Song Chi Kuan  Macau	Wong Weng Son  Malaysia	Muhammad Daffa Golden Boy  Indonesia
Qiangshu	Zhang Qingchun  China	Wong Weng Son  Malaysia	Muhammad Daffa Golden Boy  Indonesia
Nanquan	Lau Chi Lung  Hong Kong	Huang Junhua  Macau	Calvin Lee  Malaysia
Nandao	Harris Horatius  Indonesia	Huang Junhua  Macau	Lau Chi Lung  Hong Kong
Nangun	Chan Chi Ngou  Macau	Lee Yong-mun  South Korea	Harris Horatius  Indonesia
Taijiquan	Lu Xiangcheng  China	Sun Chia-Hung  Chinese Taipei	Tomohiro Araya  Japan
Taijijian	Chen Yu-wei  Chinese Taipei	Tay Yu Xuan  Singapore	Tomohiro Araya  Japan
Duilian	Philippines Mark Lester Ragay Mark Anthony Polo Vincent Ventura	Brunei Majdurano Joel Bin Majallah Sain Abel Wee Yuen Lim	Spain Nestor Urzainqui Milla Aidan Pose Martinez Vinctor de la Plaza Schineper

Women's taolu

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Changquan	Sou Cho Man  Macau	Loh Ying Ting  Malaysia	Kimberly Ong  Singapore
Daoshu	Liu Xin  China	Loh Ying Ting  Malaysia	Hoàng Thị Phương Giang  Vietnam
Gunshu	Sou Cho Man  Macau	Kimberly Ong  Singapore	Michelle Yeung  Hong Kong
Jianshu	Yao Yang  China	Lydia Sham  Hong Kong	Li Yi  Macau
Qiangshu	Li Yi  Macau	Seo Hee-ju  South Korea	Peng Yu Hsi  Chinese Taipei
Nanquan	Đặng Trần Phương Nhi  Vietnam	He Jianxin  Hong Kong	Tasya Dewi  Indonesia
Nandao	Wu Jianing  China	Đặng Trần Phương Nhi  Vietnam	Lucy Lee  United States
Nangun	Đặng Trần Phương Nhi  Vietnam	He Jianxin  Hong Kong	Tan Cheong Min  Malaysia
Taijiquan	Zeanne Zhi Ning  Singapore	Agatha Wong  Philippines	Basma Lachkar  Brunei
Taijijian	Dai Dandan  China	Sydney Chin  Malaysia	Vera Tan  Singapore
Duilian	Hong Kong Lydia Sham Michelle Yeung He Jianxin	Singapore Zeanne Zhi Ning Zoe Ziyi Tan Kimberly Ong	Macau Sou Cho Man Wong Weng Ian

Men's sanda

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Yang Xingwen  China	Tran Huy Hai  Vietnam	Russel Diaz  Philippines
			Kushal Kumar  India
52 kg	Tang Sishuo  China	Arnel Mandal  Philippines	Lacksmana Pandu Pratama  Indonesia
			Dinh Van Tam  Vietnam
56 kg	Hong Minjun  South Korea	Bintang Reindra Nada Guitara  Indonesia	Ku Hio Lam  Macau
			Islam Karimov  Kazakhstan
60 kg	Leung Yu Hong  Hong Kong	Nguyen Manh Cuong  Vietnam	Avazbek Amanbekov  Kyrgyzstan
			Elchin Eminov  Azerbaijan
65 kg	Guo Wei  China	Clemente Tabugara Jr.  Philippines	Samuel Marbun  Indonesia
			Bexultan Koskenov  Kazakhstan
70 kg	Huynh Do Dat  Vietnam	Zhang Huan Yi  Chinese Taipei	Yat Lam Cheung  Hong Kong
			Manuel di Carlo  Italy
75 kg	Michele Balducci  Italy	Yoan Benbedra  France	Cai Feilong  Macau
			Jo Sanghun  South Korea
80 kg	Liu Wenlong  China	Kevin Alan Galladro Onofre  Mexico	Fabio Gjorni  Italy
			Gochmyrat Jumanyyazov  Turkmenistan
85 kg	Michael Nicolas Woodward  Australia	Bruce Wang  United States	Georges Eid  Lebanon
			Juan David Armero Guiterrez  Colombia
90 kg	Georges Saade  Lebanon	Giuseppe Vincenzo Piccolo  Canada	Julian Martin Silva  Argentina
			Livingston Mckenzie Jr.  United States
90 kg+	Ye Xiang  China	Nursultan Tursynkulov  Kazakhstan	Michel Zammar  Lebanon
			Ahmed Samir Abdelmoaz  Egypt

Women's sanda

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Nguyen Thi Lan  Vietnam	Jenifer Kilapo  Philippines	Rosa Beatrice Malau  Indonesia
			Chhavi Chhavi  India
52 kg	Chen Mengyue  China	Elisa Calanducci  Italy	Ngo Thi Phuong Nga  Vietnam
			Audrey Meeks  United States
56 kg	Liu Danfeng  China	Beatriz Adriao Rustice Silva  Brazil	Ana-Maria Pal  Romania
			none awarded
60 kg	Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy  Vietnam	Roshibina Devi Naorem  India	Salome Yael Schumacher  Switzerland
			Sabrina Marina Detoma  Argentina
65 kg	Andreea Cebuc  Romania	Krista Stepheny Dyer  Bermuda	Nicole Lowe-Tarbert  Australia
			none awarded
70 kg	Zhu Hailan  China	Maya Bejaqui  Tunisia	Govher Govshudova  Turkmenistan
			none awarded
75 kg	Rimel Khalifi  Tunisia	Lydia Shalameh  Lebanon	Roba Hossam Mostafa Abdelaziz Elshafei  Egypt
			Akniyet Marat  Kazakhstan

Creative & Nandu Skills Demonstration Event

Event	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Men	Nathan Ly  United States	Ezequiel Agustin Moyano  Argentina	Axel Erik Ludvig Westerkull  Sweden
Women	Event cancelled

Participating nations

On November 14, the Iranian delegation announced that they would not be able to attend the championships because the US embassy did not issue visas on time.^[18] A day later, the Indian delegation also announced they had difficulties securing a visa, and thus delayed their travel plans till November 16.^[19]

•  Argentina (10)
•  Armenia (3)
•  Australia (2)
•  Azerbaijan (3)
•  Belgium (4)
•  Bermuda (2)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Bolivia (4)
•  Brazil (12)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Brunei (7)
•  Canada (10)
•  Republic of the Congo (15)
•  Chile (6)
•  China (16)
•  Chinese Taipei (9)
•  Colombia (1)
•  Croatia (2)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Djibouti (3)
•  Egypt (8)
•  France (8)
•  Great Britain (7)
•  Georgia (2)
•  Germany (3)
•  Greece (3)
•  Haiti (7)
•  Hong Kong (12)
•  Indonesia (15)
•  India (16)
•  Iran (12)
•  Israel (8)
•  Italy (12)
•  Japan (8)
•  Jordan (6)
•  Kazakhstan (8)
•  Kyrgyzstan (8)
•  Latvia (6)
•  Libya (5)
•  Lebanon (8)
•  Macau (12)
•  Malaysia (8)
•  Mexico (13)
•  Morocco (2)
•  Netherlands (5)
•  Nepal (4)
•  Norway (1)
•  Pakistan (10)
•  Philippines (14)
•  Palestine (3)
•  Poland (7)
•  Portugal (8)
•  Romania (6)
•  Rwanda (2)
•  Saudi Arabia (2)
•  Senegal (6)
•  Singapore (8)
•  South Korea (13)
•  Spain (9)
•  Sri Lanka (1)
•  Switzerland (7)
•  Sweden (5)
•  Tajikistan (6)
•  Turkmenistan (10)
•  Tunisia (3)
•  Turkey (12)
•  Uganda (8)
•  Ukraine (7)
•  United States (13)
•  Uzbekistan (3)
•  Vietnam (13)
•  Yemen (2)

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