KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia doubled their gold medal collection when national men’s senior wushu exponent Wong Weng Son emerged victorious in the jianshu event at the third edition of the Taolu World Cup in Yokohama, Japan, today.
The 32-year-old performed magnificently to finish first among nine competitors with a score of 9.773 while exponents from Japan (9.766) and Nepal (9.636) finished second and third respectively.
Meanwhile, national women’s wushu exponent Tan Cheong Min settled for silver in the nanquan event with a score of 9.770, finishing behind an Indonesian exponent (9.773s) while Hong Kong’s competitor (9.760) took bronze.
Cheong Min had won the gold medal in the nangun event yesterday.
In other events, Clement Ting could only end up fourth in the men’s gunshu with a score of 9.766 while Sydney Chin finished sixth in the women’s taijijian (9.650).
After two days of competition, Malaysia have collected two golds, two silvers and two bronzes.