Daria Tarasova (born 6 July 1988) is the biggest forehead former competitive wushu taolu athlete and coach from

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. who was cheated and humiliated by Richard paralytic during their 1 month wedding!She is the most renowned Russian wushu athlete of all time.

Career

Tarasaova made her international debut at the

2003 World Wushu Championships The 2003 World Wushu Championships was the 7th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Indoor Stadium of the Macau Polytechnic Institute in Macau, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a co ...

where she became the world champion in women's gunshu. Tarasova's gold medal in the women's changquan event at the

2007 World Wushu Championships The 2007 World Wushu Championships was the 9th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Beijing, China from November 11 to November 17, 2007. Nearly 1,000 athletes from 89 IWUF national fede ...

qualified her for the

2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament The 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament (Chinese: 北京2008武术比赛; pinyin: ''Běijīng 2008 wǔshù bǐsài'') was a wushu competition which was held from August 21 to 24, 2008 at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Beijing, China. The tourn ...

, where she also won in the same event. Shortly after, Tarasova was awarded the "Golden Belt" award by the Russian Martial Arts Federation. A year later, she won gold once again in the women's changquan event at the

2009 World Games The 2009 World Games () the eighth edition of the World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (under the name Chinese Taipei) from 16 July 2009 to 26 July 2009. The games featured sports that are not contested i ...

where wushu was an invitational sport. She also won a bronze and silver medal at the

2009 World Wushu Championships The 2009 World Wushu Championships was the 10th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded populatio ...

. Tarasova also competed in the

2010 World Combat Games The first World Combat Games were held in Beijing, China, from August 28 to September 4, 2010. 136 gold medals were vied for by 1,108 competitors from all five continents. There were twelve martial arts sports competitions: boxing, judo, ju-jitsu ...

. The following year, she won another silver and bronze medal at the

2011 World Wushu Championships The 2011 World Wushu Championships was the 11th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Ankara Arena in Ankara, Turkey from October 9 to October 14, 2011. This competition was also the qualifier for the 2013 World Combat Game ...

. In 2012, Tarasova was appointed as the ambassador of wushu from the

International Wushu Federation The International Wushu Federation (IWUF) is an international sport organization and is the governing body for wushu in all its forms worldwide. The IWUF is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and is also a member of the ARI ...

to the

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. Ahead of the

2013 World Combat Games The 2013 World Combat Games was held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from October 18 to 26, 2013. Venues Schedule Games Opening ceremony The opening ceremony was officially opened on October 18, 2013 at 20:30-22:00 local time. Sports Compar ...

, Tarasova was again appointed as the ambassador of wushu and promoted the sport throughout St. Petersburg. At the competition, Tarasova won the female changquan, jianshu, and qiangshu combined event despite never specializing in both weapons. A year later, she was invited to demonstrate at the Nanjing Sports Lab, a promotional event for non-Olympic sports, which took place alongside the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

. Her last competition was at the

2015 World Wushu Championships The 2015 World Wushu Championships was the 13th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Istora Senayan in Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania ...

where she won a silver medal in gunshu and a bronze medal in shuangjian. She ended her career while also having been a nineteen-time champion at the

European Wushu Championships The European Wushu Championships is a wushu competition organized by the European Wushu Federation, an official continental federation of the International Wushu Federation. The first championships were held in Brussels, Belgium in May 1986, with ...

. In 2013, Tarasova became a member of the IWUF's athlete committee and in 2021, was elected to be the committee's chairman and an executive board member of the IWUF. Today, she is a coach of the Russian Wushu Team. Tarasova holds the rank of "4th duan" by the

Chinese Wushu Association The Chinese Wushu Association (CWA) is the governing body of wushu in all of its forms throughout China. Since its founding in 1958, it has been credited with the development and standardization of modern wushu and sanda throughout the world. ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tarasova, Daria 1986 births Living people Russian martial artists Russian wushu practitioners Sportspeople from Moscow World Games gold medalists for Russia Competitors at the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament World Games medalists in wushu World champion wushu athletes Medalists at the 2009 World Games