1997 World Wushu Championships

1997 World Wushu Championships
Venue	Palasport dell'Eur (capacity: 11,200)
Location	Rome, Italy
Start date	November 3, 1997
End date	November 8, 1997
Competitors	700 from 55 nations

The 1997 World Wushu Championships was the 4th edition of the World Wushu Championships.^[1][2] It was held at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, Italy from November 3 to November 8, 1997. For the countries in Asia, this was the qualification for the 1998 Asian Games.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	8	2	0	10
2	Hong Kong	3	4	2	9
3	Russia	3	0	1	4
4	Vietnam	2	3	5	10
5	South Korea	2	1	4	7
6	Iran	2	1	1	4
7	Kazakhstan	2	0	1	3
8	Chinese Taipei	1	3	2	6
9	Philippines	1	1	3	5
10	Egypt	1	1	1	3
11	Romania	0	2	1	3
12	Macau	0	2	0	2
13	Japan	0	1	2	3
14	Spain	0	1	1	2
15	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Singapore	0	1	0	1
	Tajikistan	0	1	0	1
18	Italy*	0	0	2	2
	Portugal	0	0	2	2
20	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		25	25	36	86

Men's taolu

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Changquan	Yuan Wenqing  China	Vincent Ng  Singapore	Fei Bao Xian  Netherlands
Daoshu	Park Chan-dae  South Korea	Ng Wa Loi  Macau	Garry Cua  Philippines
Gunshu	Mark Robert Rosales  Philippines	Park Chan-dae  South Korea	Kweon Heung-seok  South Korea
Jianshu	Wong Chi Kwong  Hong Kong	Cheung Man Keung  Hong Kong	Cheah Kok Luan  Malaysia
Qiangshu	Wu Gang  China	Sae Tem Sa Art  Macau	Dương Duy Kiếm  Vietnam
Nanquan	Lee Chun-hui  Chinese Taipei	Leung Yat Ho  Hong Kong	Kim Young-jea  South Korea
Taijiquan	Chen Sitan  China	Chan Ming-shu  Chinese Taipei	Toshiya Watanabe  Japan

Men's sanda

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Rabiea Gamil  Egypt	Cai Wu-chien  Chinese Taipei	Rami Imanilov  Israel
			Nguyễn Y.  Vietnam
52 kg	Liu Zedong  China	Rolly Chulhang  Philippines	Woo Seung-soo  South Korea
			R. Vankah  India
56 kg	Đào Việt Lập  Vietnam	Li Wei  China	Attila Gömbös  Romania
			Jeon M.  South Korea
60 kg	Dias Zhamash  Kazakhstan	Gheorghe Lupu  Romania	D. Malec  Philippines
			Michele Fantozzi  Italy
65 kg	Aselder Begov  Russia	Ramón Quina  Spain	Mahmoud Zinhem  Egypt
			Richard Hamilton  Great Britain
70 kg	Yang Jinqiang  China	Janpolad Budagov  Azerbaijan	Khaled Sellaoui  Algeria
			Jerome Lumabas  Philippines
75 kg	Hossein Ojaghi  Iran	Csaba Gömbös  Romania	M. Wu Fen  Chinese Taipei
			Abdulmutalib Shakhrukhanov  Russia
80 kg	Kasim Gasanov  Russia	Behnam Shahvandi  Iran	Pedro Borges  Portugal
			Cung Le  United States
85 kg	Khizri Mutaev  Russia	Sameh Ibrahim  Egypt	Mohammad Reza Jafari  Iran
			Pablo Ortega  Spain
90 kg	Vakhit Abubakarov  Kazakhstan	Teng Ju  China	Lino Borges  Portugal
			André Assis  Brazil
+90 kg	Ali Mirmiran  Iran	Aslan Khamzatov  Tajikistan	M. Baidullayev  Kazakhstan
			Danilo Capuzi  Italy

Women's taolu

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Changquan	Lu Dan  China	Nguyễn Thúy Hiền  Vietnam	Lo Nga Ching  Hong Kong
Daoshu	Zuo Juan  China	Nguyễn Thúy Hiền  Vietnam	Lo Nga Ching  Hong Kong
Gunshu	Chen Jing  China	Lo Nga Ching  Hong Kong	Nguyễn Thanh Loan  Vietnam
Jianshu	Ng Siu Ching  Hong Kong	Nguyễn Phương Lan  Vietnam	Yuri Kaminiwa  Japan
Qiangshu	Nguyễn Thúy Hiền  Vietnam	Ng Siu Ching  Hong Kong	Nguyễn Phương Lan  Vietnam
Nanquan	Ng Siu Ching  Hong Kong	Cho Yu-chiao  Chinese Taipei	Nguyễn Phương Lan  Vietnam
Taijiquan	Boo Eun-kyung  South Korea	Emi Akazawa  Japan	Hsiao Ching-lan  Chinese Taipei

References

1. "Wushu World Championship Opens in Rome". Xinhua News Agency. 1997-11-03. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
2. "1997 World Wushu Championships Results" (PDF). International Wushu Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-01-28.