The first
World Combat Games
The World Combat Games is an international multi-sport event featuring combat sports and martial arts. The games were founded by SportAccord (now known as the Global Association of International Sports Federations) as a way of bringing various m ...
were held in
Beijing
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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
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermine ...
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judo
is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...
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ju-jitsu
Jujutsu ( ; ja, link=no, 柔術 , ), also known as jiu-jitsu and ju-jitsu, is a family of Japanese martial arts and a system of close combat (unarmed or with a minor weapon) that can be used in a defensive or offensive manner to kill or subd ...
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karate,
kendo,
kickboxing,
muaythai
Muay Thai ( th, มวยไทย, , ), sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, is a combat sport that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This discipline is known as the "art of eight limbs", as it is characterised ...
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sambo
, aka = Sombo (in English-speaking countries)
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sumo,
taekwondo
''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...
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wrestling
Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...
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wushu.
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Ambassadors
*Aikido: Lydia la Rivière-Zijdel
*Judo:
Robert Van de Walle
*Ju-Jitsu:
Bertrand Amoussou-Guenou
*Karate: Tsuguo Sakumoto
*Kendo: Yoshimitsu Takeyasu
*Kickboxing:
Don Wilson
*Muaythai:
Gavintra Photijak
*Sambo:
Fedor Emelianenko
Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko ( rus, Фёдор Влади́мирович Емелья́ненко, r=Fyodor Vladimirovich Yemelyanenko, p=ˈfʲɵdər vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ jɪmʲɪˈlʲjænʲɪnkə, IPA; born ...
*Sumo:
Kyokushūzan Noboru
( mn, Даваагийн Батбаяр) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) is a former professional sumo wrestler and current politician of the Democratic Party in Mongolia. He was the first wrestler from Mongolia to reach sumo's top ''makuuchi'' divisio ...
*Taekwondo:
Jung Joon-ho
Jung Joon-ho (; born October 1, 1970) is a South Korean actor, who gained fame in the 2000 series, Women Like You, (왕추). His recent hits are '' Last Scandal'' (내 생애 마지막 스캔들) and ''IRIS''. Jung Jun-ho has a passionate interes ...
*Wrestling:
Rulon Gardner
Rulon Ellis Gardner (born August 16, 1971) is an American retired Greco-Roman Olympic Gold Medalist wrestler. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won the gold medal in 2000, defeating Russia's three-time reigning gold medalist Aleksan ...
*Wushu:
Jet Li
Li Lianjie (courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist, and retired Wushu champion. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen.
After three years o ...
Medalists
Boxing
Men
Judo
Men
Women
Ju-jitsu
Men
Women
Mixed
Karate
Men
Women
Kendo
Men
Women
Kickboxing
Men
Women
Muaythai
Men
Women
Sambo
Men – Combat
Men
Women
Sumo
Men
Women
Taekwondo
Men
Women
Wrestling
Men
Women
Wushu
Men
Women
Medal table
External links
Official siteResults
{{World Combat Games
2010
2010 in multi-sport events
2010 in Chinese sport
Sports competitions in Beijing
2010s in Beijing
International sports competitions hosted by China
Multi-sport events in China