Ma Lingjuan (; born ), is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete from Anhui. She is a two-time world champion and Asian champion, and a gold medalist at the

2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

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 ...

, and the World Games.

Career

Ma started training wushu in 1993 at the age of five. In 1997, she was transferred to the Anhui Provincial Wushu Team. Ma's first major international debut was at the 2004

Asian Wushu Championships The Asian Wushu Championships is a continental 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 nations of the ...

where she won the gold medal in qiangshu. She then competed in the

2005 World Wushu Championships The 2005 World Wushu Championships was the 8th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Quan Ngua Sports Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., ...

in Hanoi, Vietnam where she became the world champion in the same event. A year later, she competed in the

in Doha, Qatar, and won the gold medal in the women's changquan all-around event. Almost a year later, she competed in 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 ...

in Beijing and won once again in qiangshu. This qualified Ma for the

where she won in the women's jianshu and qiangshu combined event. Her last major international competition was 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 ...

in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she won in the same event. Shortly after, she won the gold medal by 0.01 points in women's jianshu and qiangshu at the

2009 National Games of China The 11th National Games of China were held in various cities in Shandong from October 16 to October 28, 2009. Represented were 33 sports, 43 disciplines and 362 events, including 4 winter sports which were held in Shenyang, Changchun and Qingdao b ...

in Shandong, thus achieving the "grand slam" of wushu.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ma, Lingjuan 1987 births Living people Chinese wushu practitioners Competitors at the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament World Games medalists in wushu World Games gold medalists for China Wushu practitioners at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in wushu World champion wushu athletes Medalists at the 2009 World Games

Career

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