Ho Ro Bin () is a retired competitive wushu taolu athlete and actor from Malaysia. He is the first Malaysian athlete who have won gold medals in all major international wushu competitions including the

World Wushu Championships The World Wushu Championships (WWC) is an international sports championship hosted by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) for the sports of wushu taolu and sanda (sanshou). It has been held biennially since 1991 and is the pinnacle event ...

Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until t ...

Asian Wushu Championships The Asian Wushu Championships is a continental Wushu (sport), wushu championship hosted by the Wushu Federation of Asia (WFA), the official continental representative to the International Wushu Federation. The competition is open to the 37 member n ...

, and the

SEA Games The Southeast Asian Games, also known as the SEA Games, is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with supe ...

Career

Born in

Penang Penang ( ms, Pulau Pinang, is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by the Malacca Strait. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai on the Malay ...

, Ho started wushu at the age of 12 under Chiong Ah Chaw. At the age of 18, he moved to

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to train under Chin Hoong Yip and joined the first full-time Malaysian Wushu Team in 2000. Ho's international debut was at the 1996

where he won the bronze medal in nanquan. A year later, he competed in the 1997 SEA Games and won a silver medal in nanquan and a bronze medal in qiangshu. At the 1998 Asian Games, he won a bronze medal in men's nanquan as part of a three-way tie. He then competed in the

1999 World Wushu Championships The 1999 World Wushu Championships was the 5th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peop ...

where he became the first world champion in nandao. Ahead of the 2001 SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur, Ho considered retiring from wushu and becoming a coach. At the event, he won gold medals in nanquan and nandao/nangun combined and thus withdrew his retirement plans. A year later, Ho won the gold medal in men's nanquan at the 2002 Asian Games. He was then voted to be Olympian of the Year by the

Olympic Council of Malaysia Olympic Council of Malaysia, or commonly OCM or MOM, ( ms, Majlis Olimpik Malaysia, IOC code: MAS) is the National Olympic Committee representing Malaysia. It is also the body responsible for Malaysia's representation at the Commonwealth Games. H ...

. At the 2003 World Wushu Championships, Ho won the silver medal in nanquan and the bronze medal in nangun. He then won the gold medal in nandao and the silver medal in nanquan at the 2004

. A year later, Ho competed in the 2005 SEA Games and won the silver medal in nanquan. His last major competition was then at the 2005 World Wushu Championships where he was once again the world champion in nandao. In 2006, Ho announced his retirement from competitive wushu. The following year, he starred in

Kinta 1881 ''Kinta 1881'' is a 2007 Malaysian martial arts-action film. The film was the first Malaysian film in martial arts genre, such as '' Cicak Man'' for first Malaysian superhero film. Although being a Malaysian film, its language is Chinese. It ...

which is viewed as Malaysia's first martial arts film. He also opened his own wushu school, the Ho Ro Bin Wushu Centre.

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