The Pan American Wushu Championships is a continental wushu championship hosted by the Pan American Wushu Federation (PAWF), the official continental representative of Pan America to the International Wushu Federation (IWUF). Since 1996, the Pan American Wushu Championships have been held every two years. The PAWF also hosts the Pan American Kungfu & Taijiquan Championships.
History At the 1993 World Wushu Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a preparatory committee was created for the creation of the Pan American Wushu Federation. In 1994, Mexico hosted a "Pan American Wushu Championships" while the federation was still being formed. The following year at the 1995 World Wushu Championships, the PAWF was officially formed between members from Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and the United States. The president of the federation was selected to be Anthony Goh of the United States of America Wushu Kungfu Federation.
In 1996, the first official edition of the Pan American Wushu Championships took place from November 7 to 11 at Argentina's CeNARD which consisted of taolu and sanda events. In 2006, the Pan American Junior Wushu Championships were first organized beside the adult championships. In 2015, a completely separate competition, the Pan American Kung Fu and Taijiquan Championships, began to be organized by the PAWF.
Championships
Pan American Wushu Championships YearEditionLocation1994 -19961 Buenos Aires, Argentina19982 Toronto, Canada20003 Manaus, Brazil20024 Mérida, Venezuela20045 Annandale, United States20066 Toronto, Canada20087 São Paulo, Brazil20108 Buenos Aires, Argentina20129 Monterrey, Mexico201410 San José, Costa Rica201611 Lubbock, United States201812 Buenos Aires, Argentina202213 Brasília, Brazil202414 Santa Clara, United States202615 Pan American Kung Fu and Taijiquan Championships YearEditionLocation20151 São Paulo, Brazil20172 Puntarenas, Costa Rica20193 San Jose, United States2023 4 Markham, Canada20255 Cancún, Mexico
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