World Champions

Congrats Lia on your Gold Medal IWUF Post

Congrats Lia on your gold medal performance πŸ₯‡ at the 2024 World Junior Wushu Championships in Brunei to become world champion of Group B Daoshu. Well done!

The International Wushu Federation (IWUF) selects all gold medal winners and shares their videos as part of the β€œonline learning classroom.” We’re thrilled that the IWUF selected Lia in this regard.

Jiayou!

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 πŸ₯‡in Group B Gunshu for Lia Tang-Ruggiero

  • Gold medal πŸ₯‡in Group B Daoshu for Lia Tang-Ruggiero

  • Gold medal πŸ₯‡in Group C Daoshu for Ryan Gao

  • Silver medal πŸ₯ˆin Group C Daoshu for Thea Dong

  • Bronze medal πŸ₯‰ in Group C Qiangshu for Eason Gao

  • Bronze medal πŸ₯‰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!