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Zhao Changjun (Chinese: 赵长军; pinyin: Zhàozhǎngjūn; born October 1960) is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete from China. He is regarded as one of the greatest wushu athletes of all time. In wushu circles, it is commonly said the 1970s belonged to Jet Li, the 1980s to Zhao Changjun, and the 1990s to Yuan Wenqing. [1]
He later joined the Jiangsu Wushu Team to train under Wang Zhengtian. [1] Wu's first major intentional debut was at the 2016 Asian Wushu Championships in Taoyuan, Taiwan, where he became the Asian champion in men's changquan. A year later, he competed in the 2017 National Games of China and won the silver medal in men's changquan all-around. [2]
Zhao Qingjian (Chinese: 赵庆建; pinyin: Zhàoqìngjiàn; born March 15, 1978) is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete who is originally from Shandong. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Through his numerous successes in national and international competitions, he established himself as one of the greatest wushu taolu athletes of the 2000s.
At the 2007 World Wushu Championships, Zhao won the gold medal in daoshu and Jia won the gold medal. [3] Zhao dropped out of the gunshu event and Jia was able to win the gold medal. At the Beijing Wushu Tournament, Zhao Qingjian won both events by a wide margin, obtaining the second-highest combined score in the entire competition.
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.
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In January 1982, the movie Shaolin Temple (1982) was released as the first film to feature modern wushu. [1] Later that year, the General Administration of Sport of China officially proclaimed that wushu practitioners had a duty 'to promote wushu to the world' [2] [3] with the ultimate goal of wushu becoming an official event at the Olympic Games.
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.