9.63 - LEUNG MAN CHUN (HONG KONG)
9.60 - SHIMOMURA YUKI (JAPAN)
9.59 - LIN WEI-LIANG (TAIPEI)
9.58 - AUNG SI THU (MYANMAR)
9.57 - LEE JONG CHAN (KOREA)
9.56 - NG SAY YOKE (MALAYSIA)
9.55 - HSIAO-YUNG-SHEN (TAIPEI)
9.21 - SHIRAEDA MASASHI (JAPAN)
9.18 - CHUNG HANG CHENG (HONG KONG)
9.17 - PETER DANG (USA)
9.15 - MERRILL EDMOND ONG (CANADA)
9.15 - TIMOTHY HUNG (CANADA)
9.05 - ALFRED HSING (USA)
8.98 - CHARLES SUTANTO (INDONESIA)
8.96 - ALDY LUKMAN (INDONESIA)
8.92 - PHILLIP DANG (USA)
8.70 - SIVW ICIN YAN (SINGAPORE)
SEPTEMBER 26TH, SESSION 2: WOMEN’S QIANGSHU
9.56 - ZHENG TIAN HUI (HONG KONG)
9.40 - NGUYEN MAI PHUOUNG (VIETNAM)
9.37 - CINDY LUO (CANADA)
9.36 - KHUR PVH CHIN (SINGAPORE)
9.35 - MARGHERITA CINA (CANADA)
9.34 - SARAH CHANG (USA)
9.17 - THAT THAT NAING (MYANMAR)
SEPTEMBER 27TH, SESSION 4: WOMEN’S TAIJIQUAN
9.75 - LI JIN (CHINA)
9.59 - FAN-MAN-YUN (TAIPEI)
9.50 - YAMAGISHI KAYA (JAPAN)
9.49 - WEN CHING-NI (TAIPEI)
9.46 - NG SHIN YII (MALAYSIA)
9.32 - TAO YIJUN (SINGAPORE)
9.30 - HO PAK KEI PEGGIE (HONG KONG)
8.96 - MARY STEPHANIE PGBAY (PHILIPPINES)
7.46 - KIM OK JIN (KOREA)
MALE DAOSHU
1st - Japan
2nd - Taipei?
3rd - Mynmar
WOMEN’S CHANGQUAN
1 China - Zhao Shi - 9.69
2 Singapore - Khur Pvn Chin - 9.27
3 Canada - Margherita Cina - 9.26
MALE NANQUAN
1st - Korea
2nd - Japan
3rd - Malaysia
FEMALE JIANSHU
1st - Li Na, China
2nd - My Vu Tra, Vietnam
3rd - Tiffany Reyes, USA
The Register-Mail / Posted Aug 29, 2008 @ 05:23 PM
GALESBURG —
In a summer when all eyes were on China for the 2008 summer Olympics, 13-year-old Danielle Snell was practicing a sport based on traditional Chinese martial arts.
The Churchill Junior High School eighth-grader has been practicing wushu since she was 9 years old and has traveled to China for summer training three times. She trains with Wulin World of Martial Arts in Bartonville and competes several times a year.
“I saw a performance at a tournament and I wanted to get into that,” she said of Wushu. “The forms that I’ve learned with them are really neat. Wushu is smoother at some points (than other martial arts), but it can get stronger.”
She received the 2007 Wushu Student of the Year Award from the Illinois Combat Karate Organization and is a junior black belt in tae kwon do.
During the summer, Danielle trains about two hours weekly in wushu. Once school starts, she commutes to and from Bartonville twice weekly to train for two hours on Friday evenings and between six and eight hours on Saturdays.
When there’s a tournament on the horizon, it’s three-hour practices five days per week.
“Usually, if I know I have practice that night, I try to get most of it (her homework) done in study hall,” Danielle said of balancing her demanding schedule and keeping up her grades. She also totes schoolwork along with her in the car and, if she doesn’t finish everything, she’ll stay up late to get it done.
But martial arts isn’t the only thing on her plate. Danielle also participates in the Churchill choir, takes tumbling and is a member of the Hispanic-Latino Resource Group.
She also participates in the 30-minute children’s segment of “La Hora Latina,” a weekly two-hour bilingual radio program broadcast on WVKC 90.7 FM.
Danielle became involved with the program after being interviewed on “La Hora Latina” for a martial arts tournament. Her mother, Erin, who hails from Mexico, also volunteered with the program and would take Danielle with her.
“Most of it’s in Spanish, but there’s little things in English that I read,” Danielle said of the program. “I enjoy doing it.”
Her Hispanic heritage is important to Danielle. In addition to the radio program, she also is a member of Mexico Lindo, a Mexican folk dancing troupe. The dancers perform at schools and events throughout the year.
“Some of the little girls who are 4 years old won’t go out there (on stage) if Danielle’s not with them,” her father, William, said. “They look up to her.”
Regular trips to Mexico also help Danielle keep in touch with her Hispanic heritage, as the majority of her mother’s relatives live there. She says she enjoys visiting her relatives so “I don’t lose touch with the Mexican part of me.”
Danielle was recently recognized by the Galesburg City Council for all of her hard work. She received the Youth Extra Effort Award from Mayor Gary Smith at the Aug. 18 City Council meeting.
Rhonda Brady, director of the Knox County Area Project, nominated her for the award.
“I didn’t expect it at all,” Danielle said of the award. She thinks Brady nominated her “because I was helping out on the radio, giving my time on the radio when I could be hanging out or watching TV. I felt really honored.”
By Tarra Quismundo Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 04:01:00 08/26/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Upon seeing the tiny athlete with a gold medal around his neck, passengers on the immigration queue broke into applause. Tourists posed with him for photos and a passenger pointed a kid to the medalist passing by.
In a country deprived of Olympic joy when athletes from the regular sports failed in their courageous bid to land a medal, 24-year-old Willy Wang arrived Monday giving people who saw him at the airport reason to celebrate.
“I am happy because we got a gold in the Olympics,” said Wang, who prepared just as hard—and as long—as the athletes who were counted on to deliver the country’s first Olympic gold medal.
Wang, who prepared for the event for eight months, won the gold in wushu, a demonstration event whose results do not count on the official medal standings.
“Even if it’s a special event, I am happy that we won a gold,” said the Filipino-Chinese world champion in heavily accented Filipino.
Wang, who started training in the martial art when he was 12, snagged the gold in the demonstration event held on the side of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where most of the country’s overmatched delegation failed to make it even past the preliminary stages of their events.
Wang’s victory marked the only time the Philippine national anthem was played in Olympic City.
Wang shared that other Filipino athletes in Beijing were happy about his win despite missing their own medal goals in the quadrennial.
“Their training was really hard, they did all the preparation and they did not get any medals, but at least I got one for the country. My friends [from other events] are happy about it,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer while waiting at the baggage carousel at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2.
He believes wushu has a strong chance to become an Olympic event soon, but not within the slowly expiring shelf life of his career.
“By the next Olympics, I might already have retired, because that’s still a long time away, four years,” Wang said. “Maybe [I’m retiring] next year, because I’m old [for the sport], I’m already 24.
“I’d like to do business instead, maybe [with] computers,” he said with a grin.
Wang arrived on a Philippine Airlines flight around 5:40 p.m. Monday along with officials of the Philippine delegation, among them Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose “Peping” Cojuangco and the team’s chief of mission, Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella.
Said Cojuangco of Wang’s sport: “I think it has a good prospect because the Chinese are really working hard to get it in, there’s a big effort to get it in.”
Asked about the Philippine team’s performance, he said: “They performed as best as they can. They broke their own Philippine records. They did the way we expected them to do, only the competition was really tough.”
1 0503 Ma Lingjuan CHN 9.85
2 1901 HAN Jing MAC 9.65
3 3401 NGUYEN Mai Phuong VIE 9.55
4 3001 CHEN Shao-Chi TPE 9.50
5 1701 RAGULINA Evgeniya KAZ 9.44
6 2802 NG Xinni SIN 9.42
7 3301 LEE Tenyia USA 9.41
1 2411 WANG Willy PHI 9.74
2 2014 PUI Fook Chien MAS 9.72
2 1612 NAKATA Koki JPN 9.72
4 1311 ARABI Farshad IRI 9.71
5 3013 PENG Wei-Chua TPE 9.70
6 2711 GALKIN Stanislav RUS 9.35
7 1511 GIORDANO Michele ITA 8.99
8 0711 IBRAHIM ELSAYED H. EGY 8.65
9 2911 H. MUDIYANSELAGE Prabhath M. SRI 8.47
10 0311 SILVA Adriano Lourenco BRA 8.31
11 0111 RODRIGUEZ Maximiliano ARG 7.94
1 0502 Lin Fan CHN 9.80
2 1903 HUANG Yan Hui MAC 9.59
3 1601 KOJIMA Erika JPN 9.54
4 1103 LAW Sum Yin HKG 9.49
5 3402 VU Thuy Linh VIE 9.47
6 0402 TJHIA Samantha CAN 9.45
7 2001 BONG Siong L. Diana MAS 9.44
8 3302 MARGALIT Rachel USA 9.25
9 3003 HUANG Hsiao-Chien TPE 9.23
1 0513 Zhao Qingjian CHN 9.85 9.85 19.70
2 1911 JIA Rui MAC 9.75 9.59 19.34
3 1111 CHENG Chung Hang HKG 9.59 9.60 19.19
4 3412 TRAN Duc Trong VIE 9.62 9.55 19.17
5 2713 ZARIPOV Radik RUS 9.55 9.58 19.13
6 1813 LEE Jong - Chan KOR 9.58 9.54 19.12
7 3012 HSIAO Yung-Sheng TPE 9.50 9.24 18.74
8 0611 RODRIGUEZ G. Efren CUB 9.22 9.25 18.47
9 2511 TOPCZEWSKI Andrzej POL 9.25 9.13 18.38
10 3211 KOVAL Andrii UKR 9.35 9.35
Women’s Changquan
1 2702 TARASOVA Daria RUS 9.74
2 1904 XI Cheng Qing MAC 9.65
3 1203 Susyana INA 9.58
4 2801 KHOR Poh Chin SIN 9.37
5 0403 TSANG Selene Lok T. CAN 9.03
6 3403 VU Tra My VIE 8.97
7 2101 SANDI Oo MYA 7.92
1 0512 Yuan Xiaochao CHN 9.83
2 2712 UDELOV Semen RUS 9.63
3 1312 PEYGHAMBARI Ehsan IRI 9.59
4 1611 ICHIKIZAKI Daisuke JPN 9.58
5 2111 AUNG Si Thu MYA 9.37
6 2812 SIOW Kin Yan SIN 9.32
7 1211 MULIANTO Andrie INA 9.29
8 2011 ANG Eng Chong MAS 9.25
9 2311 GRIMWOOD Nicholas NZL 7.75
10 3111 GUL Emrullah TUR 7.27
1 0503 Ma Lingjuan CHN 9.75
2 1901 HAN Jing MAC 9.65
3 3401 NGUYEN Mai Phuong VIE 9.60
4 3001 CHEN Shao-Chi TPE 9.59
5 1701 RAGULINA Evgeniya KAZ 9.50
6 3301 LEE Tenyia USA 9.49
7 2802 NG Xinni SIN 9.22
1 0503 Ma Lingjuan CHN 9.85 9.75 19.60
2 1901 HAN Jing MAC 9.65 9.65 19.30
3 3401 NGUYEN Mai Phuong VIE 9.55 9.60 19.15
4 3001 CHEN Shao-Chi TPE 9.50 9.59 19.09
5 1701 RAGULINA Evgeniya KAZ 9.44 9.50 18.94
6 3301 LEE Tenyia USA 9.41 9.49 18.90
7 2802 NG Xinni SIN 9.42 9.22 18.64
Women’s Taijiquan
1 0501 Cui Wenjuan CHN 9.85
2 1602 MIYAOKA Ai JPN 9.66
3 2003 CHAI Fong Ying MAS 9.64
4 3002 FAN Man-Yun TPE 9.62
5 1102 HO Pak Kei Peggie HKG 9.58
6 1202 Lindswell INA 9.44
7 1902 HO Si Hang MAC 9.41
8 0201 PARNHAM Susie AUS 8.96
1 2411 WANG Willy PHI 9.74 9.70 19.44
2 3013 PENG Wei-Chua TPE 9.70 9.69 19.39
3 2014 PUI Fook Chien MAS 9.72 9.62 19.34
4 1612 NAKATA Koki JPN 9.72 9.50 19.22
5 1311 ARABI Farshad IRI 9.71 9.44 19.15
6 2711 GALKIN Stanislav RUS 9.35 9.48 18.83
7 1511 GIORDANO Michele ITA 8.99 9.37 18.36
8 0711 IBRAHIM ELSAYED Hani EGY 8.65 9.20 17.85
9 0311 SILVA Adriano Lourenco BRA 8.31 9.40 17.71
10 2911 H. MUDIYANSELAGE Prabhath Manu SRI 8.47 8.85 17.32
11 0111 RODRIGUEZ Maximiliano ARG 7.94 9.12 17.06
Women’s Nanquan
1 0502 Lin Fan CHN 9.85
2 1601 KOJIMA Erika JPN 9.62
3 2001 BONG Siong Lin.Diana MAS 9.60
4 1103 LAW Sum Yin HKG 9.50
5 3402 VU Thuy Linh VIE 9.49
6 3302 MARGALIT Rachel USA 9.43
7 1903 HUANG Yan Hui MAC 9.42
8 3003 HUANG Hsiao-Chien TPE 9.40
9 0402 TJHIA Samantha CAN 9.22
1 0502 Lin Fan CHN 9.80 9.85 19.65
2 1601 KOJIMA Erika JPN 9.54 9.62 19.16
3 2001 BONG Siong Lin.Diana MAS 9.44 9.60 19.04
4 1903 HUANG Yan Hui MAC 9.59 9.42 19.01
5 1103 LAW Sum Yin HKG 9.49 9.50 18.99
6 3402 VU Thuy Linh VIE 9.47 9.49 18.96
7 3302 MARGALIT Rachel USA 9.25 9.43 18.68
8 0402 TJHIA Samantha CAN 9.45 9.22 18.67
9 3003 HUANG Hsiao-Chien TPE 9.23 9.40 18.63
Men’s Taijijian
1 0511 Wu Yanan CHN 9.90
2 1112 HEI Zhi Hong HKG 9.71
3 3011 CHANG Ching-Kuei TPE 9.64
4 1613 SHIMODA Yoshihiro JPN 9.61
5 2012 LEE Yang MAS 9.59
6 2211 FEI Bao Yao NED 9.53
7 1811 JANG Young - Ho KOR 9.51
8 2811 GOH Qiu Bin SIN 9.49
1 1113 LIU Yang HKG 9.70
2 3411 NGUYEN Huy Thanh VIE 9.66
2 2013 LIM Yew Fai MAS 9.66
4 1212 NEBULANA Gogi INA 9.61
5 1011 DEVINE Richard GBR 9.58
6 3311 WANG Colvin USA 9.52
7 1812 KWEON Heung - Seok KOR 9.46
8 0911 ROUVIERE Pierre FRA 9.21
9 0811 ESTEVEZ Raul ESP 9.19
10 2611 SON Bryan Adam RSA 8.64
1 0501 Cui Wenjuan CHN 9.85
2 1602 MIYAOKA Ai JPN 9.66
3 2003 CHAI Fong Ying MAS 9.64
4 3002 FAN Man-Yun TPE 9.62
5 1102 HO Pak Kei Peggie HKG 9.58
6 1202 Lindswell INA 9.44
7 1902 HO Si Hang MAC 9.41
8 0201 PARNHAM Susie AUS 8.96
RED DEHGHANI YOUNARTI Farzaneh IRI
BLACK ESTIMAR Mary Jane PHI
Winner - BLACK
Women’s 60 kg
RED LUONG Thi Hoa VIE
BLACK MOHAMED ABDELRAZEK Walaa EGY
Winner - RED
RED MARIANO Mariane PHI
BLACK KARIMI VARDANJANI Zahra IRI
Winner - BLACK
Men’s 56 kg
RED Zhang Shuaike CHN
BLACK QIN Zhi Jian MAC
Winner - RED
RED RIVERA Benjie PHI
BLACK SHANDULAEV Nazir RUS
Winner - BLACK
Men’s 70 kg
RED CAI Liang Chan MAC
BLACK AHMAD IBRAHIM Ahmad EGY
Winner - RED
RED AKHADOV Murad RUS
BLACK YOON Soon - Myung KOR
Winner - RED
Men’s 85 kg
RED SALIKOV Muslim RUS
BLACK EVAGOROU Nicholas GBR
Winner - RED
RED ALMEIDA Emerson Nogueira BRA
BLACK OJAGHI Hossein IRI
Winner - BLACK
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Taolu - Evening
Men’s Jianshu
1 1113 LIU Yang HKG 9.70
2 2013 LIM Yew Fai MAS 9.66
3 3411 NGUYEN Huy Thanh VIE 9.65
4 1212 NEBULANA Gogi INA 9.55
5 3311 WANG Colvin USA 9.54
6 1812 KWEON Heung - Seok KOR 9.51
7 0811 ESTEVEZ Raul ESP 9.48
8 1011 DEVINE Richard GBR 9.44
9 0911 ROUVIERE Pierre FRA 9.32
10 2611 SON Bryan Adam RSA 8.97
1 1101 GENG Xiao Ling HKG 9.66 9.70 19.36
2 1501 XU Hui Hui ITA 9.69 9.62 19.31
3 2002 CHAI Fong Wei MAS 9.60 9.56 19.16
4 0401 LEE Wei Jen CAN 9.43 9.50 18.93
5 1201 KURNIAWAN Yuliana INA 9.43 9.49 18.92
6 2701 CHERNITSOVA Julia RUS 9.49 9.38 18.87
7 1401 GEREVITZ Natalya ISR 9.44 9.21 18.65
Men’s Taijiquan
1 0511 Wu Yanan CHN 9.87
2 1112 HEI Zhi Hong HKG 9.71
3 1613 SHIMODA Yoshihiro JPN 9.65
4 2012 LEE Yang MAS 9.60
5 2811 GOH Qiu Bin SIN 9.52
6 1811 JANG Young - Ho KOR 9.51
7 2211 FEI Bao Yao NED 9.42
8 3011 CHANG Ching-Kuei TPE 9.20
1 0511 Wu Yanan CHN 9.90 9.87 19.77
2 1112 HEI Zhi Hong HKG 9.71 9.71 19.42
3 1613 SHIMODA Yoshihiro JPN 9.61 9.65 19.26
4 2012 LEE Yang MAS 9.59 9.60 19.19
5 1811 JANG Young - Ho KOR 9.51 9.51 19.02
6 2811 GOH Qiu Bin SIN 9.49 9.52 19.01
7 2211 FEI Bao Yao NED 9.53 9.42 18.95
8 3011 CHANG Ching-Kuei TPE 9.64 9.20 18.84
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