I forgot about the World Cup Sanshou tournament in Harbin, China.
I don’t think America sent anyone to Harbin. :o
Myanmar Wushu Team Expected to Get Medals in World Sports for All Games
2008-09-20 19:24:00 Xinhua
Myanmar wushu team has been expected to get medals in the forthcoming 4th World Sports For All Games in Busan, South Korea, later this month, according to an official of the Myanmar Wushu Federation (MWF) on Saturday.
Myanmar will send a 12-member wushu team, including six athletes – three men and three women, to compete in both Taolu and Sanshou events in the games scheduled for Sept. 26-29, Secretary of MWF U Kun Jar Aung told Xinhua.
Of the six wushu athletes, five – three male and two female – will appear in Taolu and the remaining one in Sanshou events.
Aung Si Thu, Soe Win Thein and Soe Kyaw will compete in men’s Taolu and Sandi Oo and Thet Thet Khaing in women’s Taolu, while Si Si Sein in women’s Sanshou in the four-day games, he said.
Taolu male player Aung Si Thu won a gold medal in the last Asian Wushu Championships in Yangon, Myanmar in 2004, grabbed a gold and a bronze medals in the 24th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and a silver medal in the World Wushu Championships last year and female Taolu players Sandi Oo and Thet Thet Khaing got a bronze medal in the 24th SEA Games, while female Sanshou player Si Si Sein got a silver in the SEA Games, he said, adding that it will be the first appearance for the Myanmar wushu team to compete in the quadrennial World Sports For All Games.
Two Myanmar wushu players, Asung Si Thu and Sandi Oo, competed in Taolu event in the Invitational Wushu competition in Beijing, China in August, finishing fifth and seventh respectively in the competition, Kun Jar Aung said.
Meanwhile, a four-member Myanmar wushu team, comprising two Sanshou (Chinese kickboxing) players, is taking part in the World Cup Sanshou tournament in Harbin, China from Sept. 19 to 21.
Tuesday, September 08, 2008
Wushu bets off to China for 9th Sanshou World Cup
By Roderick Osis
AFTER winning four medals in a special tournament during the Beijing Olympics, the Philippine wushu team does not plan to rest on its laurels and is now setting its sights on two major competitions.
The wushu bets resume their training as they gear up for the Sanshou World Cup in Harbin, China and the Trex Games in Busan Korea.
“Everything goes back to normal. In other words, we’re back to reality…We’ll start practicing on Monday,” Benjie Rivera said last Friday morning at the University of the Cordilleras.
The RP sanshou team–composed of another bronze medallist Rivera (56 kilograms (kg)), Mary Jane Estimar (52 kg), Marianne Mariano (56 kg) and Jessie Aligaya-- will be at the Sanshou World Cup competition slated from September 17 to 19 in Harbin, China.
“I think we’ve got great chances of winning medals in the World Cup again because we still have that winning feeling from Beijing. Our will to win is also still there,” said Mariano, who is nursing a troublesome right knee.
“Our desire to win is still there. I think we will have a good showing,” said Mariano who, with her teammates and two officials, will leave for China on September 14.
The wushu squad is widely regarded as the saving grace of the disastrous Philippine campaign in the Beijing Olympics where the 15-man team went home empty-handed for the third straight Olympics.
Rivera and Mariano who got richer by over P1.5 million each from their Beijing performances are the only Olympians from Baguio in Beijing after the categories of other wushu players were not included such as Asian games silver and SEAGames gold medallist Edward Folayang in the 70-kg and Mark Eddiva, the recent gold medallist in the 65-kg category during the May 2008 7th Asian Wushu championship in Macau.
The 2008 Busan World TreX-Games is a global sport and cultural festival combining traditional and modern performances under the official patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The name TreX-Games comes from a combination of Tr for traditional, e for e-sports, and X from X-sports.
By blending traditional and modern sports and activities, the Busan TreX-Games will blur the boundaries between generations to create the world’s biggest sport and cultural festival.
The Busan TreX-Games will be held from September 26 to October 2 with around 10,000 participants from over 100 countries with 20 different types of events in the three categories of traditional performances, e-sports and X-sports.
