{"id":35890,"date":"2019-08-02T21:03:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=35890"},"modified":"2019-08-02T21:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:03:29","slug":"national-wushu-squad-lines-up-nine-exponents-for-manila-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=35890","title":{"rendered":"National Wushu squad lines up nine exponents for Manila Sea Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/wushu-artiste-calvin-1024x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35891\" width=\"318\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/wushu-artiste-calvin-1024x636.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/wushu-artiste-calvin-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/wushu-artiste-calvin-768x477.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/wushu-artiste-calvin-556x346.jpg 556w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/wushu-artiste-calvin-600x373.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/wushu-artiste-calvin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption>File photo of Wushu exponent from Negeri Sembilan Calvin Lee Wai Leong. Lee will be among the nine Wushu athletes headed to the SEA Games in the Philippines this November. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212; The national wushu squad have lined up nine of their best exponents for&nbsp;the 2019 SEA Games in the Philippines this November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This represents the smallest team for the full-contact sport in the biennial event so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysian&nbsp;Wushu&nbsp;Federation&nbsp;president Datuk Chong Kim Fatt said the list comprised eight men and one woman&nbsp;in the Sanda and Taolu disciplines, which is about half of the&nbsp;20 athletes announced during 2017 edition in&nbsp;Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it was difficult to set a medal target as the squad\u2019s four world champions were not listed due to respective disciplines not being contested at the Games, Chong said the wushu squad would try their best to win medals for the national contingent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those listed in the team are Teh Chee Chong, Lee Wei Loong, Kelvin Teng Kai Wen and&nbsp;Chong Jian Hwa for the Sanda&nbsp;discipline, while&nbsp;2016 world champion Wong Weng Son, Yeap Wai Kin, Loh Choon How, Calvin Lee Wai Leong and Sydney Chin Sy Xuan (women\u2019s) for Taolu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the KL SEA Games, Malaysia won six of the&nbsp;17 gold medals on offer for the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212; The national wushu squad have lined up nine of their best exponents for&nbsp;the 2019 SEA Games in the Philippines this November. This represents the smallest team for the full-contact sport in the biennial event so far. Malaysian&nbsp;Wushu&nbsp;Federation&nbsp;president Datuk Chong Kim Fatt said the list comprised eight men and one woman&nbsp;in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":35891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}