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IWUF News, Stories & Interviews, 运动之星
2023.11.30
AOTM November 2023 – Brunei’s Top National Wushu Star Athlete Basma Lachkar
Basma Lachkar is Brunei’s top national wushu star athlete, and she has put Brunei wushu firmly on the map with several historic sports milestones for her tiny nation. She won the gold medal in taijiquan/taijijian combined at the 2022 Birmingham The World Games – her country’s first ever gold medal in The World Games. Then in…
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IWUF News, Stories & Interviews, 运动之星
2023.09.29
AOTM September 2023: Amira Salhi-Tunisia’s Top Female Sanda Athlete
Amira Salhi, 28, is one of Tunisia’s most accomplished female sanda athletes, winning a bronze medal at the 9th Sanda World Cup in Hangzhou, and winning another even more coveted bronze medal at the World Wushu Championships in Shanghai in 2019. Putting Tunisia on the WWC champion podium was a national sport achievement. Her devotion…
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Stories & Interviews
2023.09.01
AOTM August 2023 – The Multi-Faceted Murray Cheung of Canada
Longtime dedicated wushu athlete Murray Cheung has a fascinating wushu career that spans 20 years, multiple continents, and a dazzling variety of disciplines within the sport. Besides being a regular gold medal taiji champion on his national Canadian and continental Pan American wushu championship podiums, he’s also competed multiple times in the World Wushu Championships,…
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Stories & Interviews
2023.07.31
Athlete of the Month 07-Irene Castro – Spain’s Champion Triumphs Over Tragedy
Irene Castro is a member of the Spanish national wushu team, and has won numerous championships over the past 12 years. Most recently she won the 3rd category prize in short weapons at the 8th World Kungfu Championships in Emeishan in 2019. Irene has overcome immense obstacles to follow her wushu dream, including a life-changing accident in 2018…
