Question: What was the first major competition to feature Wushu?
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 Christopher Pei (裴康凯) – Christopher Pei is the President of the United States Wushu Academy (USWA) [http://www.uswushuacademy.com].
Coach Pei was Team Leader of the U.S. Wushu Team and has represented the U.S. in competitions and demonstrations worldwide.
Coach Pei studied with Master Yang Zhen Duo (3rd son of Yang Cheng Fu and 19th generation Chen style successor, Chen Xiao Wang.
Currently, Coach Pei is studying with Yang Zhen Ji (2nd son of Yang Cheng Fu), the oldest living Yang family member, and Grand Master Chen Zheng Lei, 19th generation Chen style successor.
Coach Pei has published articles and been written about in such publications as Kung Fu Magazine, Tai Chi and Qi Magazines in the U.S and the United Kingdom.
Zhang, Guifeng (张桂凤) – Jet Li Teammates, Coach Zhang Guifeng was born and raised in Beijing.
At the age of nine, she was selected to begin Wushu training with the prestigious Beijing Wushu Team under the guidance of Coach Wu Bin, well known for his outstanding training methods that brought worldwide fame to Chinese Wushu competitors.
After successfully completing her one-year probation with the team, Zhang Guifeng proceeded to secure her place in Wushu history.
Her speed allowed her to become the first woman to perform alongside the men on the team.
At the age of 14, she defeated a 30-year-old champion  An Tian Rong (安天荣) – having graduated from Changchun Physical Education and Sports College, An Tian Rong is a former national (China) champion and wushu pioneer.
He was approved as a national (China) and international level judge in 1980, has taught at numerous universities throughout China, and authored more than 50 books on internal and external martial arts.
Among the national/international champions he's coached, while on Wu Bin's coaching staff for the Beijing Wushu Team, he provided guidance to the international celebrity, Jet Li and his student, Jinzhao Au, won the Japanese national champion title in 1986.
Steve Coleman – Longest running Great Britain Wushu champion 2002–present, Captain GB Wushu Team, starred as Shane Powers in film On the Ropes (2011 film).
Jon Foo – Learned Kung Fu when he was 8 years old, but didn't begin serious training in Wu Shu until he was 15.
Starred as Jin Kazama in the film adaptation of Tekken.
Jiang Bang Jun (江邦軍) – a well-respected international Wushu Champion.
He was the Mens All Around Wushu Champion in 1996 and 1998.
Personally invited to the Beijing Wushu Team by Wu Bin, he became the lead Athlete and Coach for the Beijing Wushu Team.
Today, he has opened a Wushu school in Virginia Called PMAA (Professional Martial Arts Academy).
Jet Li (李連杰) – possibly the most famous wushu practitioner in the world.
He started wushu as a competition sport and gained fame as he took the National Wushu Champion of China title five times as an original member of the Beijing Wushu Team, he was later selected to demonstrate his wushu on the silver screen in the worldwide hit film "Shaolin Temple".
Many of his old teammates have also appeared on-screen with him, especially in his older movies.
Jade Xu (徐慧慧) is a martial arts actress and multiple World Wushu Champion.
She won the World Championships three times in a row and the first (gun/staff) and second (dao/broadsword) place in the Olympic Wushu Tournament Beijing 2008 and became one of the most famous female Wushu athletes in the world.
Soon after her athletic career, Jade Xu received offers to star in various international Film and TV productions, such as Tai Chi 0, Tai Chi Hero, The Legend of Wing Chun and , and successfully launched her second career, as an actress.
Lu Xiaolin (呂小林) – won the 1985 National Martial Arts Open Championship in China.
She also was the youngest to receive a seventh duan from the International Wushu Federation.
She was a judge for the U.S. in the 1997 and 1999 World Wushu Championships.
She is also the current Vice President of the United States of America Wushu Kungfu Federation.
Liu Yu is an author, former Head Coach of the U.S. Wushu Team from 1997 to 1999.
She is now teaching at the Wushu Taichi Center is located in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Ray Park – Showcased his skills in wushu in several major films, including his portrayal of Darth Maul in 1999's ', as well as Toad in the film "X-Men" (2000) and as stunt-double for Robin Shou and James Remar in '.
He also heavily retrained prior to filming "", in which he portrayed the martial arts expert Snake Eyes.
Wu Bin (吳彬) – Jet Li's coach in the Beijing Wushu Team, training more wushu champions than any other coach in China.
Wu Jing (吳京) – Chinese actor who was sent to the Beijing Sports Institute at Shichahai in Beijing when he was 6 years old.
Like Jet Li he competed as a member of the Beijing Wushu Team in national level wushu competitions in China.
Both his father and grandfather were also martial artists   Donnie Yen (甄子丹) – Chinese martial artist and actor, trained with the Beijing Wushu Team.
Yuan Wen Qing (原文庆) – One of the most famous, successful, and skilled wushu practitioners in the world who has won countless gold medals in Chinese, World, and Asian Championships.
He is a former Shanxi wushu team athlete trained by the coaches Pang Lin Tai and Zhang Ling Mei.
He is most famous for his ChangQuan, DaoShu, GunShu, ShuangDao, and DiTangQuan.
A number of his routines (TaoLu) became the official standard competition routines (GuiDing) for a number of years until the new GuiDing TaoLu's were introduced.
Zhao Qing Jian (赵庆建) – Started learning martial arts at the age of 7, and was a standout member of the Beijing Wushu Team.
Retained his #1 ranking at the 2009 All China Games.
Currently has retired from the professional circuit of competition.
Zhao Changjun (赵长军) – One of the best classical contemporary wushu legends of the 20th Century.
His rivalry with Jet li was legendary, losing first place in men's longfist at the 1978 Mens Longfist competition, legend says it was due to Zhao's pinkie being slightly off, resulting in a minuscule deduction that cost him gold.
After Jet li left to become an actor, the playing field was set and for nearly an entire decade Mr. Zhao Changjun was left to dominate the scenes in national Wushu competitions in the 80's.
It has been said that "the '70s belonged to Jet, but the '80s belonged to Zhao".
Trained both in traditional and contemporary Wushu, Ditang Quan, Gunshu and Daoshu are known as "Zhao's Three Uniques".
He was also trained in traditional Cha quan, a uniquely Muslim traditional wushu style.
Retiring in 1987, he currently owns a Wushu school.  
Tongbei is present in modern wushu as well and is practiced by the contemporary wushu athletes coming out of the Chinese sports universities (referred to in some wushu circles and the University faction "Xue Yuan Pai" who study the routines in school and learn with performance being the key feature).
In the 1970s, Tongbeiquan was added by the Chinese Wushu Association as an open routine for wushu taolu forms competition.
In the 1980s it was formally classfied as a Class II Other Open Hand event, which means it is in the Northern category of traditional empty hand forms along with Fanziquan, Piguaquan and Chuojiao.
The modern wushu style of Tongbeiquan, while having a non-martial emphasis, is still popular in the same regions of northern China such as Shandong and Liaoning provinces. 
After graduation in 1965 he became a wushu coach at Beijing's Shichahai Sports School.
In 1973 the Chinese Central Documentary Film House produced the documentary "Beijing Sports School Wushu Team" that includes footage of Li Junfeng coaching a young Jet Li.
After the school won the national competition in 1974, Beijing accepted Wu Bin’s and his proposal to establish the Beijing Wushu Team, a professional team consisting of students mostly from the Shichahai Sports School.
From 1974 to 1988 Li Junfeng was a head coach of the Beijing Wushu Team.
During this time the team won the national championship in the group category for 12 straight years and his students won 56 individual gold medals.
In 1984 his students won 10 of the 16 gold medals at the National Wushu Competition in Shanghai, setting the record for the most number of gold medals won by a coach’s students.
Li Junfeng also traveled internationally as a national team coach and at the first Asian Wushu Championship in 1987 his team won 13 of 16 gold medals and 3 silver medals .
During his career as a wushu coach, Li Junfeng was awarded one Second Medal Certificate and four Third Medal Certificates from the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission.
He was also the Deputy Director of the Chinese Wushu Coach Committee ; the Commissioner of the China Wushu Association; and Councilor to the China Wushu Society.
The book "In the Spirit of the 2008 Olympics: Extraordinary Chinese Martial Artists of the World" highlights Li Junfeng as one of eleven prominent wushu pioneers. 
 as sport.
In order to standardize t'ai chi ch'uan for "wushu" tournament judging, and because many t'ai chi ch'uan teachers have either moved out of China or had been forced to stop teaching after the Communist regime was established in 1949, the government sponsored the Chinese Sports Committee, who brought together four of their "wushu" teachers to truncate the Yang family hand form to 24 postures in 1956.
They wanted to retain the look of t'ai chi ch'uan, but create a routine that would be less difficult to teach and much less difficult to learn than longer (in general, 88 to 108 posture), classical, solo hand forms.
In 1976, they developed a slightly longer form also for the purposes of demonstration that still would not involve the complete memory, balance, and coordination requirements of the traditional forms.
This became the "Combined 48 Forms" that were created by three "wushu" coaches, headed by Men Hui Feng.
The combined forms were created based on simplifying and combining some features of the classical forms from four of the original styles: Chen, Yang, Wu, and Sun.
As t'ai chi ch'uan again became popular on the mainland, more competitive forms were developed to be completed within a six-minute time limit.
In the late-1980s, the Chinese Sports Committee standardized many different competition forms.
They developed sets to represent the four major styles as well as combined forms.
These five sets of forms were created by different teams, and later approved by a committee of "wushu" coaches in China.
All sets of forms thus created were named after their style, e.g., the "Chen-style national competition form" is the "56 Forms", and so on.
The combined forms are "The 42-Form" or simply the "Competition Form".
Another modern form is the "97 movements combined t'ai chi ch'uan form", created in the 1950s; it contains characteristics of the Yang, Wu, Sun, Chen, and Fu styles blended into a combined form.
The "wushu" coach Bow Sim Mark is a notable exponent of the "67 combined form".
These modern versions of t'ai chi ch'uan (often listed as the pinyin romanization "taijiquan" among practitioners, teachers and masters) have since become an integral part of international "wushu" tournament competition, and have been featured in popular movies, starring or choreographed by well-known "wushu" competitors, such as Jet Li and Donnie Yen.
In the 11th Asian Games of 1990, "wushu" was included as an item for competition for the first time with the "42-Form" being chosen to represent t'ai chi ch'uan.
The International Wushu Federation (IWUF) applied for "wushu" to be part of the Olympic games, but will not count medals.
Practitioners also test their practical martial skills against students from other schools and martial arts styles in "tuishou" ("pushing hands") and "sanshou" competition. 
Women's wushu was contested at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Hanoi, Vietnam from November 4 to November 7.
The competition took place at Trinh Hoai Duc Gymnasium.