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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…
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Stories & Interviews
2023.06.30
Athlete of the Month – June：Singapore’s Dynamic Wushu Star Jowen Lim
Singapore’s dynamic wushu star Jowen Lim, 24, a national and international gold medal champion, specializes in changquan, and daoshu and gunshu. He’s been a six-time gold medal national champion in Singapore, and won gold medals at the 2017 and the 2023 SEA Games. With double bronzes from the 2019 World Wushu Championships, and a coveted…
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IWUF News, Stories & Interviews
2023.05.31
AOTM 05 | Wushu Champion Elizabeth Lim Brings the Gold Standard to Australia
Australian wushu star Elizabeth Lim, 33, started competing in in 2007, and won Australia’s first ever gold World Wushu Championships medal in 2015 in Jakarta, in nanquan. At the previous World Championships in Malaysia in 2013 she also made history — winning her country’s first ever taolu medal — a bronze. She was Australian national…
