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Vincent Wong
	Wong at the 2023 World Wushu Championships in Fort Worth, USA
Personal information
Born	September 10, 1992 (age 32); Seremban, Malaysia
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Sport	Wushu
Event(s)	Changquan, Jianshu, Qiangshu
Team	Malaysia Wushu Team
Coached by	Koo Chee Zhong
Medal record
Representing Malaysia
Men's Wushu Taolu
World Championships
World Cup
Asian Championships
Southeast Asian Games
Islamic Solidarity Games

Wong Weng Son, also known as Vincent Wong (Chinese: 黄永升; pinyin: Huángyǒngshēng; born September 10, 1992) is a wushu taolu athlete from Malaysia.^[1] He is one of Malaysia's most renowned wushu athletes of all time and is a two-time world champion.

Career

Early career

Wong began practicing wushu at the age of ten when his father took him to wushu classes.^[2] Wong's father is also a lion dancer and so Wong practiced it before pursuing wushu more seriously.

Competitive career: 2013-present

Wong's international debut was at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, where he won a silver medal in men's duilian. Two years later, he competed at the 2015 World Wushu Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he was a triple medalist.^[3] A year later, Wong was finally able to win his first gold medal in international competition, doing so at the 1st Taolu World Cup in Fuzhou, China, in jianshu.^[4]^[5] Shortly after, he won the gold medal in jianshu at the Asian Wushu Championships.

At the 2017 World Wushu Championships, Wong became the world champion in jianshu and also won a silver medal in qiangshu.^[6]^[7]^[8] Despite being medal-less at the 2018 Asian Games where he competed in the men's changquan event, he was able to win, later that year, two gold medals in jianshu and qiangshu at the 2nd Taolu World Cup in Yangon, Myanmar.^[9]^[10]

In 2019, Wong became one of the few triple medalists at the 2019 World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, China, winning three silver medals in his specializations.^[11]^[12] A few weeks later at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, Wong earned the silver medal men's changquan, missing the gold medal by 0.04 points.^[13]^[14]

After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wong's first competition was the 2021 SEA Games (hosted in 2022) where he did not place in changquan. A year later at the 2023 SEA Games, he won the bronze medal in changquan and the silver medal in jianshu and qiangshu combined.^[15]^[16] He then competed in the 2022 Asian Games in men's changquan but did not place.^[17] A few months later, Wong competed in the 2023 World Wushu Championships and won the gold medal in changquan as well as silver medals in jianshu and qiangshu, becoming one of three triple medalists at the competition and winning his second world title.^[18]^[19]^[20]

Competitive history

Year	Event	CQ	JS	QS	GRP
2013	Southeast Asian Games	9
2015	World Championships
2016	World Cup
2016	Asian Championships	8		8	4
2017	Southeast Asian Games	4
2017	World Championships	12
2018	World Cup
2018	Asian Games	9
2019	World Championships
2019	Southeast Asian Games				5
2020	did not compete due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	did not compete due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Southeast Asian Games	?
2023	Southeast Asian Games		?	?
	Asian Games	13
	World Combat Games	4
	World Championships