Wu Zhaohua (; born: September 9, 1998) is a professional wushu taolu athlete from China.

Career

Wu began to practice wushu at the game of seven. He later joined the Jiangsu Wushu Team to train under Wang Zhengtian.

Wu Zhaohua

Wu's first major intentional debut was at the 2016 Asian Wushu Championships in Taoyuan, Taiwan, where he became the Asian champion in men's changquan. A year later, he competed in the 2017 National Games of China and won the silver medal in men's changquan all-around. Near the end of the same year, he won the championship title of the King of Kings Wushu Championship. He then competed in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he won the gold medal in men's daoshu and gunshu. A year later, Wu competed at the 2019 World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, China, and won the first gold medal of the competition which was in the men's daoshu event. He also competed with the rest of the China wushu team in the group-set (jiti) event and won another gold medal.

Wu Zhaohua

At the 2021 National Games of China, the first major wushu competition since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wu won the gold medal in men's changquan all-around. A year later, he won the gold medal in men's daoshu and gunshu combined at the 2022 World Games. A year later, he won the gold medal in the same event at the 2023 World Combat Games.

Wu Zhaohua

Competitive history

See also

List of Asian Games medalists in wushu

China national wushu team

References

External links

Athlete profile at the 2018 Asian Games

Daoshu performance at the 2019 World Wushu Championships

1998 births

Living people

Chinese wushu practitioners

Sportspeople from Jiangsu

Asian Games medalists in wushu

Asian Games gold medalists for China

Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games

Wushu practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games

Lanzhou University alumni

Competitors at the 2022 World Games

World Games gold medalists

World Games medalists in wushu

21st-century Chinese people