Zhao Qingjian (; born March 15, 1978) is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete who is originally from Shandong. Through his numerous successes in national and international competitions, he established himself as one of the greatest wushu taolu athletes of the 2000s.

Career

Zhao was a shaolinquan practitioner throughout his youth. He later joined the Henan Songshan Shaolin Temple martial monks group which went on tours throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe during the mid-1990s. Zhao then enrolled and graduated from the Wuhan Sports University. In 1999, he was recruited by coach Wu Bin and joined the

Beijing Wushu Team The Beijing Wushu Team ( ) is a world-renowned wushu team from Beijing, China. The team has produced many famous international stars such as Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Hao Zhihua, Huang Qiuyan, Zhang Hongmei and Wu Jing. The Beijing team members als ...

. Zhao's first competition representing Beijing was in the 2000 National Taolu Championships where he won a gold medal in daoshu. At the

2001 National Games of China The 9th National Games of China was a multi-sport event that was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China from 11–25 November 2001. The main stadium for the games was the Guangdong Olympic Stadium. A total of 345 events were contested in 30 ...

, he won the silver medal in the changquan combined event which featured rounds for an optional routine and the IWUF second compulsory routine. Zhao's international debut was 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 he won gold in the changquan event and in the duilian event with Wei Jian and Yi Peng. He then won gold in the daoshu and gunshu combined event at the

2005 East Asian Games The 4th East Asian Games was an international multi-sport event for countries in East Asia which was held in Macau from October 29 to November 6, 2005. Host city At the 11th EAGA Council Meeting held in Guam in March 1996, Macau, then a Portugues ...

. The same year, he also won a gold medal in changquan and a silver medal in daoshu and gunshu combined at the

2005 National Games of China The 10th National Games of the People's Republic of China was a multi-sport event that was held in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, from 12–23 October 2005. As a premier national sporting event, the 10th National Games of the People's Republic ...

. After winning gold in daoshu 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 (Beijing), Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Beijing, People's Republic of China, China from November 11 ...

, Zhao qualified to compete in 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 ...

and won in the daoshu and gunshu combined event by a significant margin. A year later, he won gold in the same combined 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 conteste ...

. Shortly after, Zhao was able to win in the changquan event 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 ...

, narrowly placing above Yuan Xiaochao. Zhao subsequently retired from competition. Today, Zhao hosts seminars on wushu and shaolinquan throughout China, the United States, and other Asian and European countries. In 2006, he was appointed as a wushu teacher at the . Later in 2020, he became director of the Chinese Kung Fu Inheritance Committee by the Cultural China Fund of the China Chinese Education Foundation.

Competitive history

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Career

Competitive history

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