Publish Date: 30 August 2016 - 14:52

TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) – Iran’s wushu squad has arrived in Taiwan to compete as the 2016 edition of Asian Wushu Championships.

The 9th Asian Wushu Championships will kick off on September 01 in Taoyuan City, Taiwan and it will last until September 05, 2016.

A team of Iran National Wushu Sanda and Taolu in both men and women categories left Tehran on Saturday evening and arrived in Taoyuan City as the venue for the Asian sportive event.

The technical meeting for team manager and coaches will take place at 09:00 of August 31st, 2016. At the meeting, the matter related to the competition will be announced. Each participating team may send two representatives for Taolu and Sanda to attend the technical meeting.

Furthermore, the 42nd WFA Executive Committee Meeting as well as the 16th WFA Congress will also be held on Wednesday on the sidelines of the tournament with Iran’s Mehdi Alinejad as the Vice-President of Wushu Federation of Asia (WFA).

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