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Steve Coleman (Wushu)

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Steve Coleman
Personal information
Born (1981-09-22) 22 September 1981 (age 43)
Kettering, England
EducationBA Acting
University of Northampton
Occupation(s)Martial artist, athlete, coach, actor, stuntman
Years active1998-present
Sport
SportWushu
PositionCaptain (2005-2023)
Event(s)Changquan, Daoshu, Jianshu, Gunshu
TeamGreat Britain Wushu Team
Coached byMike Donoghue
Medal record
Representing  United Kingdom
Men's Wushu Taolu
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Bucharest Daoshu
Gold medal – first place 2016 Moscow Gunshu
Silver medal – second place 2008 Warsaw Jianshu
Silver medal – second place 2014 Bucharest Changquan
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Antalya Changquan
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Bucharest Gunshu
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Moscow Changquan
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Moscow Daoshu
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Moscow Gunshu

Steven Roy Coleman (born 22 September 1981) is a British Wushu athlete and actor.[1] He is a two-time European wushu champion having been the second gold medallist for Great Britain in daoshu ans gunshu behind Ray Park, and is a multiple-time medallist at the European Wushu Championships. Coleman has also won the Great Britain National Wushu Championships multiple times and has broke and set many Great Britain National Wushu records. He is said to have one of the longest competitive wushu careers, having competed internationally for over twenty years.

Career

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Early career

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Coleman began martial arts at the age of nine by practising Shotokan Karate. He trained and competed in Karate and earned a blackbelt at the age of thirteen. From 1991-94 he was a junior Karate Kata champion and in 1994 was a national champion.

In 1995, he turned his attention to Kung Fu and kickboxing. After a year of finding his direction in martial arts Coleman began training in London in wushu and Chin Woo, later complemented by training in sanda and gymnastics. He began to train in wushu around the world including in Great Britain under Mike Donoghue and at Ray Park's former school, as well as in Malaysia under Oh Poh Soon. In 2001 and 2002, Coleman won at the Traditional National Wushu Championships as well as at the 2002 Chin Woo World Championships [2]

Wushu career

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At 21, Coleman decided to focus strictly on Wushu. Training privately under Mike Donoghue, Steve went on to win the all-round National Wushu Championships in 2003 and consecutively every year since. This was added to with another World Chin Woo Championship win in 2006, various European Competition wins, and representation of the Great Britain Wushu Team.[3]

Coleman made his wushu continental debut at the 2002 European Wushu Championships in Porto, Portugal and his international debut at the 2003 World Wushu Championships in Macau.[4] He subsequently competed in the next few European and world championships, becoming the captain of the Great Britain Wushu Team in 2006.[5][6] At the 2008 European championships in Warsaw, Coleman won the silver medal in jianshu,[7] but did not compete the following year in the 2009 World Wushu Championships. A year later, he competed in the 2010 European Wushu Championships in Antalya and won a shared bronze medal in changquan.[8] From 2011 to 2012, Coleman retired from competitive wushu.

In 2013, Coleman started competing in wushu again. A year later at the 2014 European Wushu Championships in Bucharest, he became the European champion in daoshu and won silver and bronze medals in changquan and gunshu respectively. He then returned to compete internationally at the 2015 World Wushu Championships in Jakarta with a 7th place finish in daoshu.[9] A year later, Coleman competed in the 2016 European Wushu Championships in Moscow and became the European champion in gunshu and won bronze medals in daoshu and gunshu.[10] He returned to the European championships two years later also in Moscow and was a bronze medalist in gunshu.[11] Later that year, he competed in the World Martial Arts Masterships in South Korea and finished 6th in gunshu. He then competed at the 2019 World Wushu Championships in Shanghai where he was the oldest competitor.[12]

After the COVID-19 pandemic, Coleman returned to competition once again. His most recent competition was the 2023 World Wushu Championships in Fort Worth where he was once again the oldest competitor and competed with multiple injuries.[13]

Acting career

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His first television appearance was on a show called Masters of Combat, aired on BBC2 in 2001. This was later followed up with an appearance in a documentary This is Kung Fu, also shown on BBC2. In 2002, he appeared for the music video of Junkie XL vs Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" as a "kung fu" performer. In the 2011 film On The Ropes, Coleman appeared alongside Mark Noyce, Ben Shockley and others in a mockumentary style film about martial arts culture in the UK.[14] Coleman has most recently appeared on 6 Underground, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, and Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday among other films.

Competitive history

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Wushu

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Year Event CQ DS JS GS
2002 National Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships 7 8 12
2003 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 35 12
2004 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 5 4 5
2005 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 15 15 19
2006 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 4 7 6
2007 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 35 37 37
2008 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 5 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6
2009 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2010 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2010 European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 DNS
2011 Retired
2012 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2013 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2014 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2015 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 7 11
2016 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2017 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 4 DNS 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Martial Arts Masterships 6
2019 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 37 14
2020-22 Did not compete due to COVID-19 pandemic
2023 World Championships 36 11 17

Filmography

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Year Title Role Medium Notes
2001 Masters of Combat "Venomous Blade" Television
2002 "A Little Less Conversation" "Kung Fu Guy" Music Video
2011 On the Ropes Shane Powers stunt coordinator, fight choreographer
2012 The Proxy Trenchcoat #1 TV Series
2014 Allies German Ambush Soldier
2017 The Real Target Agent Double 0 Eight
"The Lost Sheep" Alec Short stunt coordinator, fight choreographer
2018 "Chopsticks!!" Foreign Fighter Short
2019 "Checkpoint" Man Short
Most Terrifying Places Drakelow Explorer TV Series
"The Adventurer's Diary" Chauffer Short
"10 Minutes for a Pound" Short assistant stunt coordinator
6 Underground stunt performer
2020 "Undercover" McKenzie Short
Badnaam stunt performer
2022 The Woman King combat trainer
Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday stunt double: Scott Adkins
2023 "Like Real Adults Do" James Short
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stunts

References

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  1. ^ Profile, rx3fightcrew.co.uk; accessed 26 December 2014.
  2. ^ Wushu Acro Fight Choreo by Steve Coleman, metacafe.com; accessed 26 December 2014.
  3. ^ Profile, mkgym.co.uk; accessed 26 December 2014.
  4. ^ "7th World Wushu Championships, 2003, Macau, China, Results" (PDF). International Wushu Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 September 2019.
  5. ^ "8th World Wushu Championships, 2005, Results" (PDF). International Wushu Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 October 2019.
  6. ^ "9th World Wushu Championships, 2007, Beijing, China, Results" (PDF). International Wushu Federation. 17 November 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 October 2019.
  7. ^ "12th European Championship" (PDF). European Wushu Federation. 18 October 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  8. ^ "13th European Wushu Championship - Taolu Final Results" (PDF). European Wushu Federation. 14 March 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  9. ^ "13th World Wushu Championships, 2015, Jakarta, Indonesia, Results" (PDF). International Wushu Federation. 18 November 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 October 2019.
  10. ^ ""16th European Wushu Championships and 9th European Junior Wushu Championships", Russia (2016-05-14 - 2016-05-20)". Competition Book. 20 May 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  11. ^ ""17th European Wushu Championships and 10th European Junior Wushu Championships ", Russia (2018-05-16 - 2018-05-20)". "17th European Wushu Championships and 10th European Junior Wushu Championships", Russia (2018-05-16 - 2018-05-20). 20 May 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  12. ^ "15th World Wushu Championships, Shanghai, China, Results" (PDF). International Wushu Federation. 23 October 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 November 2019.
  13. ^ "HYX 16th World Wushu Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Wushu Federation. 20 November 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  14. ^ On The Ropes cast & crew, ontheropes-themovie.com; accessed 26 December 2014.
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