Wong Weng Son
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| Born | September 10, 1992 Seremban, Malaysia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wushu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Changquan, Jianshu, Qiangshu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | Malaysia Wushu Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Koo Chee Zhong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wong Weng Son, also known as Vincent Wong (Chinese: 黄永升; pinyin: Huángyǒngshēng; born September 10, 1992) is a retired wushu taolu athlete from Malaysia.[1] He is one of Malaysia's most renowned wushu athletes of all time and is a two-time world champion.
Early career
Wong began practicing wushu at the age of ten when his father took him to wushu classes.[2] Wong's father is also a lion dancer and so Wong practiced it before pursuing wushu more seriously.
Competitive career: 2013-present
Wong's international debut was at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, where he won a silver medal in men's duilian. Two years later, he competed at the 2015 World Wushu Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he was a triple medalist.[3] A year later, Wong was finally able to win his first gold medal in international competition, doing so at the 1st Taolu World Cup in Fuzhou, China, in jianshu.[4][5] Shortly after, he won the gold medal in jianshu at the Asian Wushu Championships.
At the 2017 World Wushu Championships, Wong became the world champion in jianshu and also won a silver medal in qiangshu.[6][7][8] Despite being medal-less at the 2018 Asian Games where he competed in the men's changquan event, he was able to win, later that year, two gold medals in jianshu and qiangshu at the 2nd Taolu World Cup in Yangon, Myanmar.[9][10]
In 2019, Wong became one of the few triple medalists at the 2019 World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, China, winning three silver medals in his specializations.[11][12] A few weeks later at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, Wong earned the silver medal men's changquan, missing the gold medal by 0.04 points.[13][14]
After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wong's first competition was the 2021 SEA Games (hosted in 2022) where he did not place in changquan. A year later at the 2023 SEA Games, he won the bronze medal in changquan and the silver medal in jianshu and qiangshu combined.[15][16] He then competed in the 2022 Asian Games in men's changquan but did not place.[17] A few months later, Wong competed in the 2023 World Wushu Championships and won the gold medal in changquan as well as silver medals in jianshu and qiangshu, becoming one of three triple medalists at the competition and winning his second world title.[18][19][20] His last competition was at the 2024 Taolu World Cup where he won a gold medal in jianshu and a bronze medal in changquan.[21] He declared his retirement after this competition.
