The 13th World Wushu Championships in Jakarta Indonesia

[GeneChing]

Might as well get this started - Lucky #13.

If you've been following our reports on this one, you know there are several changes this time. Here's the official site (at least I think it is...it takes days to load so I bailed )

Pakistan to participate in World Wushu Championship in Indonesia
in Top Stories 2015-10-20 13:30:59 155 Views



Last Updated On 20 October,2015 About 2 hours ago The World Championship will be organized by Indonesia Wushu Association. ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - - Pakistan will participate in the 13th World Wushu Championship scheduled to be held in Indonesia next month, officials said on Monday. The Pakistan Wushu Federation (PWF) received invitation for participation from the event management and it has decided to send its squad for the event, a press release stated. The World Championship will be organized by Indonesia Wushu Association from Nov. 11 to 18 in Jakarta. The PWF has also selected its team that will compete in four weight categories of the event. Pakistan Wushu team includes Abdullah (60kg), Syed Maratib Ali Shah (65kg), Shafi-ur-Rehman (72kg) and Maaz Khan (75kg). Amir Shahzad Butt and Muhammad Imran will accompany the team as manager and coach, respectively. The federation is hopeful to win medals in the event, the statement said. Pakistan Wushu Federation is the national governing body to develop and promote the sport of Wushu in the Country. The Game of Wushu, the Chinese version of Martial Arts (Kung-Fu), is most rapidly progressing in Pakistan. In 1962, the PWF was affiliated with the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA). The Federation is also the member organization of the International Wushu Federation (IWUF).
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - - Pakistan will participate in the 13th World Wushu Championship scheduled to be held in Indonesia next month, officials said on Monday. The Pakistan Wushu Federation (PWF) received invitation for participation from the event management and it has decided to send its squad for the event, a press release stated. The World Championship will be organized by Indonesia Wushu Association from Nov. 11 to 18 in Jakarta. The PWF has also selected its team that will compete in four weight categories of the event. Pakistan Wushu team includes Abdullah (60kg), Syed Maratib Ali Shah (65kg), Shafi-ur-Rehman (72kg) and Maaz Khan (75kg). Amir Shahzad Butt and Muhammad Imran will accompany the team as manager and coach, respectively. The federation is hopeful to win medals in the event, the statement said. Pakistan Wushu Federation is the national governing body to develop and promote the sport of Wushu in the Country. The Game of Wushu, the Chinese version of Martial Arts (Kung-Fu), is most rapidly progressing in Pakistan. In 1962, the PWF was affiliated with the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA). The Federation is also the member organization of the International Wushu Federation (IWUF).

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[GeneChing]

I'm eager to see how this year's WWC goes in the wake of the Olympic rejection, and more so, with the new events.

Men’s Wushu team to depart for Indonesia



Wed 28 October 2015 - 11:44

TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (MNA) – Iran’s national Wushu team consisting of 11 athletes will attend 13th World Wushu Championships, Jakarta, Indonesia.
The 13th World Wushu Championships will be taking place in Jakarta, Indonesia from November 11 to 18 with Iran’s national team deploying 5 Sanda and 6 Taolu athletes to the tournament.

Accordingly, in Taolu section, Mahdi Fathi, Mohsen Ahmadi and Navid Makvandi (in duilian), Farshad Arabi, Taher Ghasemi, and Reza Khalafzadeh will represent Iran in the world championships.

Iran’s Sanda athletes include Jafar Shirzad in -65kg, Mohsen Seifi in -70kg, Sajad Abbasi in -75kg, Amir Fazli in -85kg and Hamidreza Gholipoor in -90kg weight who will fight on the platform.

Iranian women's team has not dispatched any athletes to the tournament yet.

Published: Tuesday October 27, 2015 MYT 6:34:00 PM
Updated: Tuesday October 27, 2015 MYT 6:54:08 PM
World champ Cheau Xuen dropped from wushu squad
BY LIM TEIK HUAT


National wushu exponent Tai Cheau Xuen training during the Singapore SEA Games in June. - IZZRAFIQ ALIAS/ The STAR

KUALA LUMPUR: Top nanquan exponent Tai Cheau Xuen has been dropped from the World Wushu Championships at Istora Senayan in Jakarta from Nov 14-18.

The 24-year-old flopped in the selection test at the training centre in Bukit Jalil and will not be defending the world title in compulsory nanquan that she won in Kuala Lumpur two years ago.

The Negri Sembilan-born exponent delivered Malaysia’s first gold medal at the Asian Games in Incheon last year after winning the women’s nanquan and nandao combined event. Unfortunately, she was tested positive for sibutramine, an ingredient commonly found in slimming products.

She was later suspended for four months until the end of March. She made her comeback at the Singapore SEA Games in June but failed to defend her title.

“Cheau Xuen’s performance was not up to par at the selection and we decided to leave her out because current form matters,” said national coach Lim Yew Fai.

He also said that Yeap Wai Kin, who contributed two silver medals for Malaysia at the last world meet two years ago, has also been left out.

Yew Fai is counting on former world champion Diana Bong to carry the country’s hopes in the nanquan disciplines – nanquan, nangun and nandao.

The Sarawak-born Diana is the defending champion in nangun.

“Diana is very experienced and has won medals in previous world meets, so I have faith in her,” said Yew Fai, who was a former world champion for qiangshu.

Singapore SEA Games gold medallist Loh Jack Chang (taijiquan, taijijian); Ho Mun Hua (nanquan, nandao, nangun); and Wong Weng Son (changquan) are the male exponents selected.

Malaysia will have five women exponents in Jakarta – Diana; Chai Fong Wei (changquan, daoshu, gunshu); Phoon Eyin (jianshu, qiangshu); Chan Lu Yi (taijijian, taijiquan); and Ng Shin Yii (taijijian, taijiquan).

Shin Yii recently tied the knot with national bowler Adrian Ang.

Of the eight, Weng Son and Lu Yi will be making their debut at the world meet.

“It’s a smaller squad, but everyone is capable of delivering medals,” said Yew Fai.

In Kuala Lumpur two years ago, Malaysia achieved their best-ever haul of four golds, five silvers and five bronzes.

[GeneChing]

Looking forward to the Sanda, Xingyi, Bagua and Duilian.

See worldwushu.tv

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Action star Jet Li coming to Jakarta next week for the World Wushu Championships
By Coconuts Jakarta November 4, 2015 / 10:20 WIB


Jet Li in the movie "Fearless"

Some of the most impressive martial artists in the world will be coming to Jakarta next week to compete in the 13th World Wushu Championships, which is taking place from Nov 13-19 at the Jakarta Convention Center .

But the most famous martial artist at the event won’t be there to compete. World-renowned movie star and action hero Jet Li (“Hero,” “The Expendables” and, of course, "Fist of Legend") will be coming to Jakarta to attend the championship’s opening ceremony.

Li's attendance was confirmed by the Chief Executive of the World Wushu Championship, IGK Manila, during a meeting with Indonesian officials on Tuesday.

Li is closely associated with the world of wushu competitions, having first rose to fame after winning multiple gold medals in China’s Wushu Championships.



In addition to Li and several other martial arts actors from Malaysia, Manila said that the event would be attended by wushu warriors from over 75 countries who have registered for the championship competition in Jakarta.

"This championship will show the good name of Indonesia to the eyes of the world, especially to the International Wushu Federation (IWUF), based in China, which does not easily trust other countries to host the world championship," Manila said as quoted by BeritaSatu.

How awesome would it be if, while in Indonesia, Jet Li was able to meet our very own homegrown action superstar, Iko Uwais, and then they teamed up to create the greatest martial arts movie of all time?

Jet + Iko = that would be cool for sure.

[GeneChing]

World's best Wushu athletes to vie in Jakarta
2015-11-06 09:58 Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping

A total of 904 Wushu athletes from 73 countries and regions will compete in the 13th World Wushu championship in Jakarta from Nov. 13 to 18, official said in Jakarta Thursday.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is scheduled to kick off the tournament at Istora Senayan in Jakarta, said IGK Manila, chairman of the tournament's organizing committee.

Worlds top movie star and ambassador of Wushu, Jet Li, and movie star and former Wushu athlete Michele Yeoh will present at the event.

"Jet Li will come to Indonesia on Nov. 12," Manila said at sport ministry.

"Preparation has been made. The athletes will start arriving on Nov. 7," he added.

Indonesia will also host the International Wushu Federation Congress before the championship.

"Our target is to improve ranking and achievement," the chairman said about Indonesia's goal at the tournament.

Michelle and Jet, reunited.

[GeneChing]

Wushu has really become an Asian thing. The West don't care.

Iran’s Arabi Earns Silver at World Wushu Championship
November, 16, 2015 - 17:08
فرشاد عربی


TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Farshad Arabi brought much cheer to Iranian camp by winning the country’s first medal at the 13th World Wushu Championship on Monday.

The Iranian wushu exponent claimed a silver medal at Nandao event at the Istora Senayan in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Arabi finished in the second place with 9.65 points.

“After a disappointing performance in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, I wanted to prove myself. I had several surgeries but I could earn a silver medal,” Arabi said.

Malaysian Mun Hua Ho claimed a gold medal with 9.67 points.

Bronze medal went to Chinese Taipei’s Po Wei Lai who scored 9.63.

The 13th World Wushu Championship is under progress in Jakarta.

Over 900 athletes from 73 countries are participating in this mega event.

Three Indian wushu players assured of at least bronze medal in World Championship
PTI | Nov 16, 2015, 05.55 PM IST
JAKARTA: Y Sanathoi Devi and two others have assured India of at least bronze medals after entering the semifinals of their respective weight categories in the 13th World Wushu Championship.

Asian Games bronze-medallist and Arjuna Awrdee, Sanathoi defeated Turkey's Ozlem Cicek in quarterfinals of the Women's 52kg category to advance to the last four stage.

The Manipuri will next take on South Korea's Hyebin Kim.

Other Indians in the fray -- Surya Bhanu Pratap and Uchit Sharma -- have also been assured of at least a third-place finish in the prestigious competition.

Pratap defeated Iat San Mto of Macau in 60kg quarterfinals, while Sharma toppled Van Huang Dinh of Vietnam in 52kg quarterfinals.

However, L Budhchandra Singh lost to Indonesia's Yusuf Widitanto in 56kg division, while Puja Tomer was defeated by Vietnam's Luan Thi Hoang in 48kg category.

Published: Sunday November 15, 2015 MYT 5:22:00 PM
Updated: Sunday November 15, 2015 MYT 5:26:09 PM
It's raining bronze for Malaysia in world wushu meet
by lim teik huat


Shin Yii claimed the first medal for Malaysia at the Istora Senayan in Indonesia.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia made an impressive start with three bronze medals on the opening day of the 13th World Wushu Championships in Jakarta.

Ng Shin Yii, who tied the knot with top Malaysian bowler Adrian Ang last month, had the honour of claiming the first medal for Malaysia at the Istora Senayan when she posted 9.66 points in the women’s taijiquan on Sunday.

Asian Games gold medallist exponent Lindswell Kwok picked up Indonesia’s first gold with an impressive 9.70 total while Hong Kong’s Chen Suijin took the silver with 9.68 points.

Negri Sembilan-born Wong Weng Son capped his debut by grabbing Malaysia’s second bronze in the men’s jianshu with 9.61 points.

Charles Sutanto gave Indonesia a golden double by collecting 9.64 points to emerge champion in the 38-man field. Russian Andrei Solovev finished second on 9.62.

Two-time world champion Ho Mun Hua delivered the third bronze for Malaysia in the men’s nanquan with a 9.67 total. China’s Wang Di bagged the gold with 9.73 ahead of Macanese Huang Jun Hua’s 9.68.

Although the 26-year-old Mun Hua failed to retain the title he won in Kuala Lumpur in 2013, he was happy with his efforts.

“I proved I’m still the best in the country for nanquan. I won the bronze in the presence of a Chinese competitor this time, so I am happy to be on the podium,” said Mun Hua, who won his first world title in Toronto, Canada, in 2009.

A total of 78 countries are competing in Jakarta. The International Wushu Federation (IWUF) are out to make a good impression as observers from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are present at the five-day championships. Wushu is eyeing for an inclusion in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.