Wushu Tournament Beijing 2008


Wushu Tournament Beijing 2008 was a wushu competition which was held from August 21 to 24, 2008 at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Beijing, China.
The International Wushu Federation has been promoting wushu as a potential Olympic sport for some time. The award of the 2008 Summer Olympics to Beijing presented an opportunity to showcase wushu in an Olympic competition environment. Although, according to the contract signed between the IOC and the host city, no international or national sports competition is allowed in the Olympic host city during the Games or one week before or after, the IOC specifically permitted the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games to organise the Wushu tournament in parallel with the Olympic Games, due to wushu's place in traditional Chinese culture.
Other than substituting the Olympics symbol with the symbol of the International Wushu Federation, all other elements were identical to the Olympics. Athletes were allowed to stay in athletes' village. The official BOCOG website also includes the schedule, results, and profiles of the athletes.

Medal summary

The wushu tournament featured a total of 128 athletes from 43 countries. Qualification for the tournament was through placing at the 2007 World Championship. The medals were not added to the official Olympics medal tally. The tournament featured a total of 15 separate events in the taolu and sanshou disciplines:

Medal table

Taolu

Sanshou

Results

Taolu

Men's Changquan

Men's Daoshu & Gunshu combined

Men's Nanquan & Nangun combined

Men's Jianshu & Qiangshu combined

Men's Taijiquan & Taijijian combined

Women's Changquan

Women's Daoshu & Gunshu combined

Women's Nanquan & Nandao combined

Women's Jianshu & Qiangshu combined

Women's Taijiquan & Taijijian combined

Sanshou

Legend :
DI = Default-injury

KO = Knock-out

TV''' = Technical victory

Men's 56 kg

Men's 70 kg

Men's 85 kg

Women's 52 kg

Women's 60 kg