Master Li Qiang was one of six key female players of the Beijing Wushu Team from 1995 to 2005. During these years, she won countless championships and served as a crucial element in retaining the Beijing Wushu Team’s reputation as the most elite Wushu team in China.
The Chinese government awarded Coach Li the highest class ranking as an International Athlete (Wu-Yin Ji).
Here are a few examples from her long list of competition successes:
1998 China Nationals – Gold Medal in Team Competition
1999 China Nationals –Gold Medals in individual event competitions: Staff, Broadsword, and Double Broadsword;
Silver Medals in individual event competitions: Nanquan (Southern Fist) and Xingyi
2000 China Nationals – Gold Medal in Group Form
Coach Li was born in Hebei, China. She began intense wushu training at age 6. The turning point of her wushu career came at the tender age of 15 when the Beijing Wushu Team’s head coach, Wu Bin, noticed her remarkable skill and talent as she was preparing for a wushu competition in Beijing. Wu Bin immediately recruited her onto the Beijing Wushu Team.
Between 1995 and 2005, Coach Li traveled with the Beijing Wushu Team all over the world and throughout the United States, performing, teaching, training, and competing. In 2006, after retiring from wushu competition, Coach Li made the USA her permanent home.
Coach Li Qiang’s wushu specialties are: Broadsword, Staff, Nanquan, Double Broadsword, Xing Yi, Southern Broadsword, Southern Staff.
