A wushu taolu athlete for Macau, China specialising in changquan, jianshu and qiangshu. He became a world champion with the jianshu (sword) gold at the 2023 World Wushu Championships, took the men's changquan bronze at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games — one of Macau's four medals at those Games — and added a changquan gold at the 2024 Taolu World Cup in Yokohama.
From gymnastics to wushu, Song Chi Kuan honed his long fist and sword to world-champion level — and wrote Macau's name onto the Asian Games and World Championship podiums.
Song Chi Kuan is a wushu taolu athlete representing Macau, China. At the 2023 World Wushu Championships he won the sword gold to become a world champion.
Profile
- Chinese Name: 宋子君
- English Name: Song Chi Kuan
- Born: 23 December 1997
- Represents: Macau, China
- Domain: Sport
- Discipline: Wushu taolu (changquan / jianshu / qiangshu)
- Subject type: Athlete
Background
Born in 1997, Song Chi Kuan competes in wushu for Macau, China. He first trained as a gymnast and switched to wushu around the age of nine, specialising in long fist together with the sword and spear events. One of the mainstays of the Macau men's wushu team, he has long contested Asian- and world-level medals for the territory in the taolu disciplines.
Career
I. Asian Games and World Cup
At the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games he placed fourth in men's changquan, winning a changquan bronze at the Taolu World Cup in Yangon the same year. At the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games (postponed to 2023) he scored 9.760 to win the men's changquan bronze — one of Macau's four medals at those Games, alongside Li Yi's gold, Huang Junhua's bronze and Cai Feilong's sanda silver.
II. World champion
Song has been a regular World Wushu Championships medallist: at Shanghai 2019 he won bronze in both sword and spear, and at the 2023 World Wushu Championships he took the jianshu (sword) gold to join the ranks of world champions. In 2024 he added a changquan gold at the Taolu World Cup in Yokohama.
Defining Moment
World Championship sword gold (2023)
At the 2023 World Wushu Championships, Song Chi Kuan won the jianshu event to become a world champion — the peak of his career and another World gold for Macau in the men's taolu disciplines. He was subsequently awarded an Honorific Title of Merit by the Macau SAR government in recognition of his achievements.