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The 2009 World Wushu Championships was the 10th edition of the World Wushu Championships. [1] It was held at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto , Ontario, Canada from October 25 to October 29, 2009. [ citation needed ]
The wushu competition at the 2009 World Games was held from July 16 to July 26 at the Kaohsiung County Stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This was the first time wushu was featured as an invitational sport at the games, with later appearances being in 2013 and 2022.
This is a list of notable international wushu competitions hosted by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) and its official continental organisations. Note: Most competitions with the "Kung Fu Championships" label were originally named "Traditional Wushu Championships" leading up to 2017.
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. [2] After the formation of the IWUF at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, [ 3 ] the 1991 World Wushu Championships were quickly organized to be held in the same city.
Wushu has been contested at the World Games as an invitational sport in 2009 and 2013 with taolu and sanda events. [1] In the 2022 World Games , wushu returned as an invitational sport but only with taolu events.
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Women's wushu was contested at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Hanoi, Vietnam from November 4 to November 7. The competition took place at Trịnh Hoài Đức Gymnasium. The competition took place at Trịnh Hoài Đức Gymnasium.
In contemporary times, wushu has become an international sport under the International Wushu Federation (IWUF), which holds the World Wushu Championships every two years. Wushu is an official event at the Asian Games , East Asian Youth Games , Southeast Asian Games , World Combat Games , and in various other multi-sport events.