The MWuF demonstrate the mauritian Wushu for the Guandi festival ...more

Team of 9 Athletes along with Dhan Yong was invited by the Mayor of St Andre...more

Wushu Demonstration held in Heen Foh...more

Four of our athletes took part in the1st World Junior Wushu Championship...more

Our 5th Edition was held at Beau Bassin Judo Centre...more

Guangxi Wushu Team on a three days Demonstrations in Mauritius...more

IWUF delegation on a tour in the African region makes a detour to Mauritius ...more

The National Wushu Championship 2003 is the 4th edition organised by the Mauritius Wushu Federation in Mauritius ...more

News from IWuF (Thursday 7 August 2008)

Dear IWUF members
It is my great pleasure to inform you that Mr. Yu Zaiqing, the President of the IWUF was successfully elected as Vice President of the IOC at the 120th IOC Session held today in Beijing by 84 out of 94 valid ballots. We hereby express our hearty congratulations to him and we hope that under his leadership, wushu sport would be further developed in the world.

Kind regards,

Wang Xiaolin
IWUF Secretary General

Chinese National men’s wushu routine championships end
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
From Xinhua.net
NANNING, South China, June 16 (Xinhua) — The 2008 National men’s wushu routine championship, scheduled from June 13 to 15, concluded at the Gymnasium of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China on Sunday.
A total of 42 teams from across China participated in the competition consisting of 11 events such as Nanquan, Taijiquan and outines of sword and broadsword.
Lv Yongxu from Shandong Province earned the gold medal in the broadsword competition for his impressive performance, followed by hanghai’s Yang Yuhong and Anhui’s Yang Nianwu, while Zhao Kun from Henan Province won the sword contest with Wu Di and Wang Congranking second and third.

Wushu to be part of Beijing Olympic Games
Wushu competitors at the 10th National Games yesterday had more than a medal to look forward to the martial arts genre will for the first time be included in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sprung the pleasant surprise on wushu aficionados who had been pushing for the sport to be made an official event.
"There will be a wushu competition during the Olympic Games. It's not going to be one of the official 28 sports but we will organize with BOCOG (the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad) a wushu competition," said Rogge at the opening ceremony of the Sixth Art Exhibition of Sports in China in Nanjing yesterday morning.
When Beijing won the right to host the 2008 Games, proponents wanted wushu, one of the traditional sports in China to be listed as an Olympic sport for the home Games. The IOC turned down the proposal but kept the door open for it to be a representation sport.
But Rogge did not clarify if wushu will be regarded as a demonstration sport like taekwondo and tennis, which were earlier demonstration sports and have now become official events at Olympic Games.
While medals will be awarded for demonstration sports, they will not count towards the official tally of nations.
In 2002, the IOC decided to cap the number of Olympic sports at 28.

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 7th2006, 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.

Wushu needs to be standardized for popularity, said official
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
From Xinhuanet

BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) — Wang Xiaolin, president of the Chinese Wushu Association (CWA), spoke highly of the rapid development of wushu here on Friday, saying that the simplification and standardization are necessary for the popularization of wushu in the future.
”China dominates wushu, but the competition between foreign and Chinese athletes is becoming more and more fierce,” commented Wang, Secretary-General of the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) and President of the CWA amid the Wushu World Championships.
The 9th World Wushu Championships, being successfully held here from Nov. 11 to 17, has attracted a record entry of nearly 1000 athletes from 89 countries and regions.
After the 5-day taolu (routines) competition, fifteen countries and regions have been awarded the medals while eleven of them reaped the golds and twenty have been ranked in the top eight.
”I’m delighted to see such a situation because it means that wushu is becoming increasingly popular among the whole world,” said Wang.
When asked about the popularization of wushu in the future, Wang said that the simplification and standardization are critical steps for wushu to achieve sustainable development in the world.
”We have made great progress in the standardization of the competition. For example, the computer-scoring system has been introduced for fairness of the game and three teams of judges are required to be responsible for technical quality, difficulty and athlete’s level respectively.”
”Besides, wushu needs to be simple as many foreign people finds it hard to learn. This is because wushu derives from a wide variety of ancient Chinese martial arts and the ethics of it is profound.
”However, we will try to simplify the procedure and scoring rules for its globalization in the future.”
On wushu’s possible entry into the Olympics, Wang pointed out that three steps were needed. First, the members of the IWUF (currently 120 countries and regions) should be enlarged. Second, wushu has to become the official programme of a few more major games, such as the African Games, Pan-American Games and so on. Third, television coverage should increase and more well-known commercial enterprises should support wushu events.
”We are confident that it will enter the Olympics one day but there’s still a long way to go. However, it’s not the whole thing as our aim is that Chinese wushu can be enjoyed around the world and help people become healthy,” said Wang.
Toronto of Canada will host the 10th World Wushu Championships in 2009.

The 9th World Wushu Championships will be held from November 11 to 17, 2007 in Beijing, China.

The 9th World Wushu Championships opened here on Sunday at Beijing Olympics Sports Center with a record entry of nearly 1,000 athletes from 89 countries and regions.
Liu Peng, president of Chinese Olympic Committee, declared open the 6-day tournament. Then, the magnificent Taijiquan (shadowboxing) performance acted by one thousand Chinese masters illuminated the spectacular opening ceremony with the theme “Wushu belongs to the world”.
Li Lianjie (Jet Li), the well-known Hollywood Kung Fu star presented as the special guest and delivered a speech to the audiences, “I feel delighted that the Wushu Championship returns to our hometown and I hope in the rest of my lifetime I can spread the spirit of Wushu which includes humanity, peace, harmony and wisdom to every corner of the world.”
Wushu, which derives from a wide variety of ancient Chinese martial arts, is composed of two disciplines: taolu (routines) and sanshou (fight).
In the 9th world championship, taolu covers 22 categories in which Taijiquan (shadow boxing) and Taijijian will adopt incidental music during the competitions for the first time. While sanshou comprises 18 categories which divided into men’s 11 classes and women’s 7 classes.

The 11th Wushu European Championship held in Lignano Sabbiadoro (Udine, Italy) on November 6-12, 2006.        

The 11th Wushu European Championship held in Lignano Sabbiadoro (Udine, Italy) on November 6-12, 2006.                                              
29 national teams and the around 500 athletes performed in the various disciplines of the ancient Chinese martial art.
The Final Results are:
 COUNTRY               Gold   Silver    Bronze    TOTAL
Russian Fed.              22      14            6            42
France                          7        1            6            14
Spain                            5        3            1              9
Turkey                          4        3            2              9
Italy                               3        5            7            15
Ukraine                         3         4            2             9
Netherlands                  1         4            8            13
Romania                        1         3            5             9
Finland                          1         3            1             5
Great Britain                  1         1           0             2
Germany                       1         0            1            2               

Zhengzhou: 2nd Traditional Wushu Championships
17-23 October 2006                                                                        

Shaolin Temple present a grand welcome ceremony to guests from all over the world during The Second Traditional Wushu Championships last week. About 50,000 wushu practitioners performed along the way from Shaolin Square to Shaolin Temple.
Martial monks perform during the grand welcome ceremony of the 2nd World Traditional Wushu (martial arts) Championships (WTWUC) at Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of Chinese martial arts in Dengfeng, central China's Henan Province, Oct. 17, 2006. The 2nd WTWUC opened at Zhengzhou, capital of Henan on Monday. The four-day event attracted 2,008 athletes and coaches from 66 countries and regions.

The 6th Asian Wushu Championships which was held from November 20 - 28, 2004 in Yangon, Myanmar was a complete success. 446 athletes from 25 countries and regions in Asia participated in the Championships. Athletes from 10 countries and regions won gold medals. During this time, the WFA Technical Committee meeting, Executive Committee and Congress were held successfully.                                                                                     
Wushu Championships wordwide (04-Oct-2004)... summary of recent championships around the world.