Song Chi Kuan
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| Born | 23 December 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wushu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Changquan, Jianshu, Qiangshu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | Macau Wushu Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Song Chi Kuan (Chinese: 宋子君; pinyin: Sòngzijūn; born 23 December 1997) is a professional wushu taolu athlete from Macau.
Junior
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.[1]
Senior
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.[1][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 2023, Song went to train in Gansu under Chang Zhizhao.[3] 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]
Competitive history
| Year | Event | CQ | JS | QS |
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| 2012 | Asian Championships | ? | ? | ? |
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| 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 | |
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| 2020 | did not compete due to COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2023 | Asian Games | |
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| World Championships | 12 |  |
14 | |
Honours
Awarded by the SAR of Macau:
