Israeli Team Wins Nine Medals at European Wushu Championship

The Israeli national team in Wushu has just won two gold, two silver and five bronze medals at the European Wushu Championship ended in Tbilisi, Georgia.

More than 800 athletes competed in the European Wushu Championship which was hosted for the first time in Georgia. The official opening of the tournament was held last Tuesday.

Wushu is a martial art and full-contact sport developed in China after 1949, in an effort to standardize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts, following even earlier attempts to structure the various martial arts traditions, back in 1928. The term wushu is Chinese for "martial arts." The International Wushu Federation (IWUF) holds the World Wushu Championships every two years.

Israeli Athlete Anastasia Kirilyuk, one of the best in the world in this field, was awarded a gold medal as European Champion, as well as a silver medal.

The Israeli team was assembled following qualifying competitions.