French athlete Loan Drouard, 22, is a top European wushu champion who is deeply passionate in the pursuit of his sport. He began his inspiring journey at the age of nine after he discovered wushu through a Shaolin documentary, and his family took him to China to train in Henan. He started modern wushu sport training when he was 12 and moved to a new city in France during high school to be able to train every day with one of the national coaches. From 2017-2024 he has placed first in changquan, daoshu and gunshu in the French Wushu Championships. In 2017 he won first prize at the World Kungfu Championships in shaolinquan. In 2019 he won 3 gold wushu medals in the Mediterranean Wushu Championships. In 2022 at The World Games in Birmingham he placed 3rd in daoshu. At the Wushu World Championships in 2019 he placed 7th in daoshu, and at the WWC in 2023 he placed 6th in gunshu. In 2024 he won 2 gold medals at the European Championships in both changquan and gunshu. In fact, Loan is moving towards his dream step by step, and wushu has been an inseparable part of Loan's life.
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