Blog: Saturday, Dec 8

9th World Wushu Championship 2007.

It has become quite a tradition that the best wushu athletes from different

countries come to Beijing to take part in the World Wushu Championship. The

year of 2007 wasn't an exception.

Asian athletes were leading this time. Russia proved that its' national team

is one of the strongest teams in the world. The zest of the championship

were excellent performances of  such Russian athletes as Tarasova, Galkin,

Beletov.

It seemed that athletes from Mainland China and Chinese provinces: Macao

(Aomen), Taiwan, Hong Kong (Xianggang); of Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam,

Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Indonesia were competing only against each other.

Ukrainian Wushu Team leader Andriy Koval didn't manage to be among 8 best

wushu athletes. Despite his good results: 9.41 Nan Quan, 9.46 Daoshu, 9.19

Gunshu and his brilliant performances he won only 9th place (Nan Quan).

There should not be excuses. But.. what happened?.. It all could be

explained easily- its the matter and cause of conflict situation in

Ukrainian wushu. The overall result of taolu performances of Ukrainian wushu

team was a real shame.

Talking about the result of Ukrainian Wushu team performances in the whole-

it was not just very bad, it was horrible.

Ukrainian wushu team got 6th place among 6 participants in women's dui lian

(it means - the worst point and the worst performance). However this result

is being presented as the 6th place of Ukrainian athletes and as almost the

final place in the general rating (a great move to cheat specialists and

amateurs, who saw neither performances, nor total protocols).

The Ukrainian wushu team athletes got next-to-last places in each program-

34th, 45th, 71st (Please take a closer look at analysis of the protocols of

Ukrainian Wushu team performances). The point of 7.66 in Gunshu of one of

the Ukrainian athletes speaks for itself.

Ukrainian wushu sanshou team athletes (trained by Y. Tarasiuk and I.

Homenko) really did their best. Yet for young athletes such result on the

world championship could be marked as "B-". It was really hard for our

athletes psychologically, but they are looking forward to take part in the

European championship and we believe that their victories are in the nearest

future. Maria Batsman and Irina Sorokovskaya did good and got 5th place.

When journalists asked Mr. Gleb Muzrukov what he thinks of Ukrainian Wushu

team he replied:

"You don't have a team in Ukraine. You have problems with development of

wushu in Ukraine. There were some good athletes in Your country in the past,

now I can see only A.Koval..  "

what do wushu athlets do when they hear Ruslana?

http://www.galaradio.com/index.php?cat=808&news=8211

 Is there anything in common between Chinese Wushu and Ukrainian Gopak?

http://www.galaradio.com/index.php?cat=808&news=8210

enjoy! on these videos YOU can see performances of Ukrainian Wushu Athlete, World and European Champion- Koval A.