Ten of the country’s best wushu athletes will compete in the 6th World Junior Wushu Championships scheduled on September 29 to October 3 in Burgas, Bulgaria. Two-time World Cup titlist Jessie Aligaga and Chinese Ma Jingwei and Hao Zhang will serve as coaches of the Filipino athletes. The WFP will also send a team to the 8th Sanda World Cup slated for Nov. 1-6 in Xian, China. The team will be spearheaded by Divine Wally, who earned the right to compete in the World Cup after winning the gold medal in the 13th World Wushu Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia last year. She was a silver medalist in the 7th Asian Junior Championships and the SEA Games in Myanmar in 2013.

Source: Manila Times September 28, 2016 12:56 UTC