Song Chi Kuan | |
Birth Date: | 23 December 1997 |
Sport: | Wushu |
Event: | Changquan, Jianshu, Qiangshu |
Team: | Macau Wushu Team |
Song Chi Kuan (; born 23 December 1997) is a professional wushu taolu athlete from Macau.
Song originally practiced gymnastics as a kid and later started learning wushu around the age of nine.[1] At the age of fourteen, he made his international debut at the 2012 Asian Wushu Championships in Hanoi.
Song made his senior debut at the 2015 World Wushu Championships in Jakarta. Despite placing under the top-8 in his events, he still was invited to compete in the 2016 Taolu World Cup in Fuzhou. After competing in the 2017 World Wushu Championships in Kazan,[2] he finished fourth in men's changquan at the 2018 Asian Games.[3] Shortly after, he won a bronze medal in changquan at the 2018 Taolu World Cup in Yangon.[4] A year later at the 2019 World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, he won bronze medals in jianshu and qiangshu.[5] [6]
In July of 2023, Song went to train in Gansu under Chang Zhizhao. Two months later, he won the bronze medal in men's changquan at the Asian Games that year.[7] [8] [9] A few months later, he competed in the 2023 World Wushu Championships where he became the world champion in men's jianshu.[10]
Year | Event | CQ | JS | QS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Junior | ||||
2012 | Asian Championships | ? | ? | ? |
Senior | ||||
2015 | World Championships | 12 | 14 | 9 |
2016 | World Cup | 6 | 7 | 4 |
2017 | World Championships | 13 | 8 | 12 |
2018 | Asian Games | 4 | ||
World Cup | 7 | |||
2019 | World Championships | 33 | ||
2020 | did not compete due to COVID-19 pandemic | |||
2023 | Asian Games | |||
World Championships | 12 | 14 |
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