Canadian Champions

We celebrate our achievements at Worlds

On Sunday, October 13th 2024, we celebrated with a party to honor the achievements of our athletes at the 9th World Junior Wushu Championships.

The party featured honored guests from local governments, parents of athletes, students of our school, and of course the 10 National Team athletes that competed at Worlds in Brunei. There was a short demonstration, a speech from Master Li, and plenty of food and fun.

Thanks to all the party organizers!

Champions at the 2024 World Junior Wushu Championships

Congratulations to the success of all 14 athletes from Team Canada, including 10 from Wayland Li Wushu, that participated in the 9th World Junior Wushu Championships!

Key achievements:

  • 10 athletes from Wayland Li represented Canada on the National Wushu Team in taolu competition

  • Gold medal 🥇in Group B Gunshu for Lia Tang-Ruggiero

  • Gold medal 🥇in Group B Daoshu for Lia Tang-Ruggiero

  • Gold medal 🥇in Group C Daoshu for Ryan Gao

  • Silver medal 🥈in Group C Daoshu for Thea Dong

  • Bronze medal 🥉 in Group C Qiangshu for Eason Gao

  • Bronze medal 🥉in Group A Qiangshu for Chris Gao

  • Venus Li, Marcus Li, Amanda Sun, Allen Liu and Kai-Hsin Chang finishing with top 10 or better placements in their respective divisions

  • With 3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals, there was the strongest showing for Team Canada ever in a single competition event. Canada placed 8th overall!

Congratulations to all of national team athletes from across Canada, including Junchen Yang, Virigina Cai, Melissa Hai and Julianna Huang. It was a blast to be on this journey together!

The championships were held in Brunei from September 22 - 29, 2024.

And a special congratulations to Shifu Wenqi Li and Coach Erica Li for your hard work and perserverance in coaching so many athletes.

Go, go, go Wushu go!

2019 Canadian National champions!

Congratulates to all 39 athletes from Wayland Li that competed in the 2019 Canadian Nationals! 

The event was held on May 25-26, 2019 and featured the very best athletes from across Canada in the sport of Wushu. The event was a qualifier to select the national senior team that will represent Canada at the 15th World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, China.

Based on their excellent performance, 3 athletes from Wayland Li Wushu were selected for the Canadian National team - congrats Dylan, Erica and Rex!

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2018 Canadian National Junior Wushu Team Selections

Congratulates to all 30 athletes from Wayland Li that competed in the 2018 Canadian Nationals on May 19-20, 2018! 

Key Achievements:

  • 7 athletes from Wayland Li Wushu selected to represent Canada on the Junior National Wushu Team, including Rex Lam, Rasa Rahnema, Erica Li, Caleb Akai, Zeina Shaltout, Adam Shaltout and Kai-Hsin Chang.
     
  • 19 athletes participated in High Performance taolu divisions, finishing with gold, silver and bronze medal achievements.
     
  • Open events: 10 students participated in competition for the first time, taking home several gold, silver and bronze medals.
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Results from 2017 Canadian National Wushu Championships

Congratulations to the 39 Wayland Li athletes that competed in the 2017 Canadian Wushu Nationals!  This year’s performance was outstanding for both our experienced competitors and students participating in their first competition.

  • Erica Li selected as part of the Canadian National Team.  She will be travelling to Kazan, Russia later this year for the World Wushu Championships representing Canada. Congrats Erica!
     
  • Seniors Group: Seven athletes took home 4 gold medals, 4 silver and 3 bronze.
     
  • Group A: One athlete won three gold medals for changquan, daoshu and gunshu.
     
  • Group B: 8 athletes from Wayland Li took home 7 gold medals, 8 silver and 4 bronze.
     
  • Group C: 9 athletes from Wayland Li took home 8 gold medals, 6 silver and 4 bronze.
     
  • Open events: 21 students participated in competition for the first time, taking home 11 gold medals, 8 silver and 13 bronze.
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snapd Markham coverage of Wayland Li at 2016 Canadian Wushu Nationals

snapd Markham profiled some of our athletes at the 2016 Canadian National Wushu/Kung-fu and Taiji Championships.  Check out the Facebook post and snapd article.

snapd Markham page available here (https://markham.snapd.com/event/956316#/).

2016 Canadian National Wushu/Kung-Fu Taiji Championships

We had 20 athletes from Wayland Li participate in this year's Junior Nationals. The team took home 39 medals across ranked taolu events (15 gold, 15 silver and 9 bronze).

In addition, 7 athletes from our school were selected to represent Canada on the national junior team (Nima, Remy, Rex, Erica, Zeina, Ashley and Adam). 

Congratulations to everyone!