Dương Thúy Vi (born May 11, 1993) is a wushu taolu athlete from Vietnam. She is one of the most renowned wushu athletes of all time, having won numerous medals at the World Wushu Championships,

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, Southeast Asian Games, and the

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Early life

Thúy Vi was born to a father who practiced

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and a mother who was a wing chun fighter, and started training in the martial arts under her parents at the age of three. When she was seven, one of her cousins was taken by her father to practice wushu to lose weight and thus Thúy Vi eventually discovered modern wushu taolu.

Career

Junior, 2005-2011

Thúy Vi made her international debut at the 2005 Asian Junior Wushu Championships where she won a silver medal in jianshu and a bronze medal in qiangshu. She then was a silver medalist in jianshu at the 1st

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in 2006. The following year, she won silver medals in changquan qiangshu at the 2007 Asian Junior Wushu Championships. Two years later, Thúy Vi was the Asian junior champion in changquan and a bronze medalist in jianshu after competing in the 2009 Asian Junior Wushu Championships. Her last junior competition was at the 2011 Asian Junior Wushu Championships where she was the Asian junior champion in jianshu and qiangshu and also won a bronze medal in changquan.

Senior

2011-2014

Thúy Vi first competed in the

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where she won the bronze medal in women's jianshu and qiangshu combined. She then competed in the

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where she won a silver medal in duilian and a bronze medal in jianshu. In 2012, she competed in the

in Hanoi and won a silver medal in jianshu and a bronze medal in duilian with Hoàng Thị Phương Giang. The following year, the won a gold medal in jianshu and a silver medal in qiangshu at the

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. Shortly after, Thúy Vi became the world champion in qiangshu and a silver medalist in jianshu at the

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. These repeated victories prepared her for the

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where she was the gold medalist in women's jianshu and qiangshu, thus achieving Vietnam's first gold medal in wushu at the Asian Games and only gold at the 2014 games. This victory led Thúy Vi to be the first Vietnamese athlete to be featured in a

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publication in the United States.

2014-19

At the

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, Thúy Vi won medals of all colors with a gold victory in jianshu. Shortly after this, she was a double silver medalist in her weapons events and a bronze medalist in changquan at the

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. This qualified her for the 2016

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where she won the silver medal in jianshu. She then competed in the 2016 Asian Wushu Championships and was a bronze medalist in qiangshu. A year later, she was a double gold medalist in jianshu and qiangshu at the

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, and was the world champion in qiangshu once again at the

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. Thúy Vi then competed in the

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and won the bronze medal in women's jianshu and qiangshu. A year later, she competed at the

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where she won two silver medals in jianshu and qiangshu.

2022-present

Thúy Vi's first major competition after the start of the

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was the

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(hosted in 2022) where she won gold medals in jianshu and qiangshu and a bronze in changquan. Shortly after, she won the gold medal in women's jianshu and qiangshu combined at the

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, the first medal for Vietnam at the 2022 games. In May 2023, she won the gold medal in women's jianshu and qiangshu combined in the

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. In September, she won the bronze medal in the women's jianshu and qiangshu competition at the

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. Shortly after, she competed in the 2023 World Combat Games and finished 5th in women's jianshu and qiangshu combined. She then competed in the

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and finished 6th in changquan and 13th in jianshu and qiangshu.

Competitive history

References

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