Jowen Lim Si Wei | |
Birth Date: | 6 January 1999 |
Alma Mater: | Singapore Sports School |
Sport: | Wushu |
Event: | Changquan, Daoshu, Gunshu |
Team: | Singapore Wushu Team |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Jowen Lim Si Wei (; born: January 6, 1999) is a Singaporean wushu taolu athlete.
Lim started practicing wushu at the age of six.[1] Between 2010 and 2014 he made three appearances at the World Junior Wushu Championships and became a two-time world junior champion. Lim also competed twice at the Asian Junior Wushu Championships and is a one-time Asian junior champion.
Lim competed in the 2016 Asian Wushu Championships in Taoyuan and was a silver medalist in daoshu and a bronze medalist in duilian.[2] A year later, he competed in the 2017 Southeast Asian Games and was a double gold medalist.[3] [4] The same year, he competed in the 2017 World Wushu Championships and won the bronze medal in daoshu.[5] A year later, he competed in the men's daoshu and gunshu combined event at the 2018 Asian Games and missed the bronze medal by 0.01.[6] [7] The following year, he was a double bronze medalist in daoshu and gunshu at the 2019 World Wushu Championships.[8] Shortly thereafter, he won a silver medal in daoshu and gunshu combined at the 2019 SEA Games.
Lim's first major competition after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic was at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games (hosted in 2022), where he won silver medals in changquan as well as daoshu and gunshu combined.[9] [10] A few months later, he competed in the 2022 World Games and won the silver medal in daoshu and gunshu combined. The following year, he won a gold medal in daoshu and gunshu combined along with a silver medal in changquan at the 2023 Southeast Asian Games.[11] Lim was then chosen alongside fencer Amita Berthier as the flagbearers for the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China,[12] and then won the silver medal in men's daoshu and gunshu at the event.[13] [14] Shortly after, he won the bronze medal in the same event at the 2023 World Combat Games.[15] At the 2023 World Wushu Championships, Lim became the world champion in gunshu and won a silver medal in daoshu.[16]
Year | Event | CQ | DS | GS | |||
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Junior | |||||||
2010 | World Junior Championships | ||||||
2011 | Asian Junior Championships | ||||||
2012 | World Junior Championships | ||||||
2013 | Asian Junior Championships | ||||||
2014 | 2014 | World Junior Championships | |||||
Senior | |||||||
2016 | Asian Championships | ||||||
2017 | Southeast Asian Games | ? | ? | ||||
World Championships | 6 | 17 | |||||
2018 | Asian Games | 3 | 4 | 4 | |||
2019 | World Championships | 20 | |||||
Southeast Asian Games | 4 | ? | ? | ||||
2020 | Did not compete due to COVID-19 pandemic | ||||||
2021 | |||||||
2022 | Southeast Asian Games | 3 | 2 | ||||
World Games | 2 | 2 | |||||
2023 | Southeast Asian Games | 1 | 1 | ||||
Asian Games | 3 | 2 | |||||
World Combat Games | 2 | 3 | |||||
World Championships | 23 |