2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament – Men's taijiquan

none 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament Men's taijiquan at the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium 22-23 August 8 8 Wu Yanan CHN Hei Zhi Hong HKG Yoshihiro Shimoda JPNThe men's taijiquan / taijijian all-around competition at the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament was held from August 21 to 22 at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium.Taijiquan & Taijijian, Men http://www.olympedia.org/results/901261 live Olympedia https://web.archive.org/web/20210326070356/https://www.olympedia.org/results/901261 2021-03-26 Background At the 2007 World Wushu Championships, China's Wu Yanan and Japan's Yoshihiro Shimoda were the gold medalists in the taijiquan and taijijian events respectively.2014-11-27 9th-World-Wushu-Championships-2007-Beijing-China-Results http://www.iwuf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/9th-World-Wushu-Championships-2007-Beijing-China-Results.pdf live 2021-03-26 International Wushu Federation https://web.archive.org/web/20191024011310/http://www.iwuf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/9th-World-Wushu-Championships-2007-Beijing-China-Results.pdf 2019-10-24 Two other favorites in this event were Taipei's Chang Ching-Kuei who was the silver medalist in taijiquan and Hong Kong's Hei Zhi Hong who placed third in taijijian. At the competition during the first round of taijijian, Wu quickly set himself apart from the rest of the competition with a 9.90, the highest score ever received at the Beijing Wushu Tournament. He was followed by Hei who distanced himself from Chang by another wide margin. In the second round of taijiquan, Wu and Hei secured their medal positions and Chang received a low score, leaving Shimoda to make a comeback to receive the bronze medal. Schedule All times are Beijing Time (UTC+08:00) DateTimeEventFriday, 22 August 200821:25TaijijianSaturday, 23 August 200821:16Taijiquan Results The taijijian event was judged without the degree of difficulty component while the taijiquan event was judged with it.2008-08-23 C14AQ_Two Events Combined Results_Men's Taijiquan & Taijijian http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BCK/WS/85143.shtml dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080925004904/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BCK/WS/85143.shtml 2008-09-25 2021-02-25 The official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games RankAthleteTaijijianTaijiquanTotalWu Yanan CHN9.909.8719.77Hei Zhi Hong HKG9.719.7119.42Yoshihiro Shimoda JPN9.619.6519.264Lee Yang MAS9.599.6019.195Jang Young-Ho KOR9.519.5119.026Goh Qiu Bin SIN9.499.5219.017Fei Bao Yao NED9.539.4218.958Chang Ching-Kuei TPE9.649.2018.84 References External links Official Website Men's_taijiquan Men's_taijiquan