Sports Encyclopedia: International Wushu Federation

The International Wushu Union (IWUF) is the abbreviation for the International Wushu Federation (IWUF). The International Wushu Federation (IWUF), abbreviated to IWUF in English, has its secretariat in Beijing, China. The President of the IWUF is Yu Zaiqing of China. Successive presidents are Li Menghua, Wu Shaozu and ___ Jian of China.

The predecessor of the IWUF was the Preparatory Committee of the IWUF. During the 1984 National Wushu Competition, the Chinese Wushu Association (CWA) invited the heads of wushu organizations from France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, the United States, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macao, and other countries and regions, to visit Wuhan to discuss further development of wushu in the world. Discussions were held on the further development of wushu in the world, and the Memorandum of Understanding was signed. We unanimously hope that China will take the lead in preparing for the establishment of an international wushu organization as soon as possible.

In August 1985, the Chinese Wushu Association in Xi'an, China, organized the first International Wushu Invitational Tournament, from Belgium, Canada, the Philippines, France, Britain, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Macao, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, the United States and China and other 17 countries and regions, the team participated in the game, and held a meeting during the invitational tournament to discuss the preparations for the establishment of an international wushu organization. Preparation for the establishment of an international wushu organization. It was unanimously agreed that China, Britain, Italy, Japan and Singapore would each send a representative to form the Preparatory Committee for the International Wushu Federation. 26 August 1985, the Preparatory Committee for the International Wushu Federation was established in Xi'an, and Xu Cai, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Wushu Association, was appointed as the Director of the Preparatory Committee, and Zhao Shuangjin was elected as the Secretary General of the International Wushu Federation. The meeting determined that: ① International Wushu Federation Preparatory Committee Secretariat in Beijing; ② in August 1986 in Tianjin, China, held the "Tianjin Daily Cup" International Wushu Invitational Tournament; ③ entrusted the Chinese Wushu Association to organize an international wushu instructor training courses. Since then, the Preparatory Committee has held 6 meetings, and has done a lot of work for the development of international wushu sports and the formal establishment of the IWUF. For example, it entrusted the CWUA to send coaches and referees to more than 20 countries in Asia, Europe and America, and organized three training courses for international wushu coaches, international referees and the 11th Asian Games Wushu Referee Training Course, in which coaches and referees from more than 20 countries and regions took part in the study. In order to gradually standardize the techniques and rules of wushu, the Preparatory Committee of the IWUF commissioned the CWUA to compile books and videos on seven competition routines: long fist, southern fist, tai chi, knife fighting, swordsmanship, stick fighting and gun fighting, and held a training course for coaches of the above prescribed routines in Macao. In addition, the Chinese Wushu Association also organized three international wushu invitational tournaments, and in 1988 held the International Wushu Festival, the Wushu Sanshou as a competition, for the International Wushu Federation was established after the World Wushu Championships to lay the foundation.

On October 3, 1990, the IWUF was officially established in Beijing. Li Menghua, director of China's National Sports Committee, served as president, Malaysia's Lin Jingyi, Britain's Raymond Smith as vice-president, and the secretariat was located in the Chinese National Wushu Federation. Smith as Vice President, the Secretariat is located in China.

On October 22, 1994, at the 28th Congress of the International Federation of Individual Sports (IFIS) held in Monte-Carlo Bay, Monaco, the IWUF was admitted as a full member of the organization, and the IWUF appointed the President of the Chinese Wushu Association and the Acting Secretary General of the IWUF, Zhang Yaoting, to attend the meeting.

In August 1995, the seventh meeting of the IWUF Executive Committee and the Third Congress held in Baltimore, USA, the Executive Committee was reelected, and the Chairman was changed to Wu Shaozu, Director of the National Sports Commission of China. The meeting also established the IWUF Technical Committee. The meeting approved the proposal to hold the first "IWUF Intercontinental Championships" in Italy in 1998 as proposed by the Executive Committee of Falconi, Italy: one team from each of Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Oceania will participate in the event, with each team consisting of 20 persons, including 8 members from the routine team, 5 from the sanshou, and 2 coaches, Each team consists of 20 members, including 8 set players, 5 Sanshou athletes, 2 coaches, 2 referees, 1 doctor, and 1 chairman of the continental Wushu Union and the continental Wushu Union Technical Committee.

On June 20, 1999, at the 109th Plenary Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held in Seoul, Korea, the IWUF was provisionally recognized by the IOC. 2001, the IWUF formally submitted an application for the entry of wushu into the Olympic Games to the IOC, and in February 2002, at the 113th IOC Plenary Session, the IWUF's application was formally approved, and wushu was listed as an official sport in the Olympic Games. In February 2002, the 113th plenary session of the IOC formally approved the application of the IWUF and listed wushu as an official sport of the Olympic Games. At present, Wushu's application for the Olympic Games has been supported by the Chinese government, and the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games have also given strong support to Wushu's entry into the Olympic Games.

The IWUF currently has 97 national and regional member associations from five continents, and the seventh congress of the IWUF was held in Macau on November 3, 2003, which formally approved the new executive committee. Yu Zaiqing, a member of the International Olympic Committee, Vice President of the Chinese Olympic Committee and Vice President of the Beijing Organizing Committee, was elected as the new President of the IWUF.

The IWUF aims to promote the union and unification of national and regional wushu organizations and to promote international wushu sports. The IWUF organizes a World Championship every two years. At present **** held seven sessions, specifically: the first in October 1991 in Beijing, China; the second in October 1993 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; the third in August 1995 in Baltimore, USA; the fourth in November 1997 in Rome, Italy; the fifth in November 1999 in Hong Kong, China; the sixth in November 2001 in Armenia; and the sixth in November 2001 in the United States. The 7th Congress of the IWUF held in 2003 revised the IWUF Constitution and competition rules, and decided that the 8th World Wushu Championships would be held in 2005 in Moscow, Russia. At the same time, it was announced that the first World Traditional Wushu Congress would be held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China in 2004.

The World Championships competition programs are Wushu sets and Wushu Sanshou. The routine competition using the prescribed routine. Men's and women's routines are set up: long fist, south fist, taijiquan, swordsmanship, gunplay, knife, stick, south knife, south stick, taiji sword, sparring; men's sparring, women's sparring competition set up 11 levels: 48, 52, 56, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, and 90 kilograms to the upper level. There will also be a performance program.