Team/ Individual Competition Regulations

Participation Methods & Rules

  1. All IHQF Member Associations and the relevant social organizations may send multiple teams to the tournament (Teams from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan regions must be registered by the member organization). Each team consists of a maximum of ten (10) participants, including one (1) team leader, one (1) coach and eight (8) athletes. Competing team athletes must be in good physical condition. The team leader may serve as a coach, The team leader and coach may also serve as a competing athlete.
  2. There will be Group and Individual Competitions. The Group Competition consists of a minimum of four (4) and a maximum of eight (8) athletes regardless of gender and age. Each team may register for multiple disciplines. The Individual Competitions will be classified by gender and age. There will be three (3) age groups: under 39 (inclusive), 40 ~ 64, and above 65 (inclusive). The age group classification shall be subject to June 30th, 2025. Each individual may register for multiple disciplines. After the registration deadline, if there are less than 2 teams registered for a group competition and lessthan 3 people registered for an individual competition, the Organizing Committee will issue a notice of cancellation of the related event and allow the relevant participants to change their registration once.

Competition Methods

  1. The “Rules for International Health Qigong Competition (trial version)” (reviewed, adopted and published by the Chinese Health Qigong Association) shall be designated by the IHQF.
  2. Competitors at Group competition march in triangular format and each team with more than 4 members is in 2 rows, forming a parallelogram.
  3. Competitors at individual competitions march in a dash line, staggering in 2 rows.
  4. Competing disciplines at Group and Individual Competitions are the ABBREVIATED VERSION of the original exercise compiled by the Chinese Health Qigong Association. The ABBREVIATED VERSION MUSIC WITHOUT oral prompt applies in the competition. (Both of the competition music and practice music with oral prompt are available on the IHQF official website.

Ranking & Awards

  1. Awards of Gold, Silver and Bronze are set up in each discipline in Group and Individual Competitions. For each ranking, 20% of awards of Gold, 30% of Silver and 50% of Bronze are given to the athletes/teams in single discipline respectively. Places of all the awards are calculated per round-off principle.
  2. All-around awards will be added for Individual Competition. According to gender and age groups, for those who apply for more than two disciplines (inclusive) for the old disciplines (YJJ, WQX, LZJ and BDJ) and apply for more than two disciplines (inclusive) for the new disciplines (other except YJJ, WQX, LZJ and BDJ), the individual all-around awards will be set up, and the top three of each gender and age group will be awarded the champion, runner-up and third runner-up prizes. From all the disciplines participated by the athletes, the best two old disciplines and the best two new disciplines, a total of four disciplines, are selected to calculate the sum; At the same time, if an athlete participates in more than four disciplines, each discipline not included in the sum score will be awarded a dependent bonus point according to the ranking of the individual competition (0.5, 0.3 and 0.2 bonus points for the first, second and third prizes, respectively), and the cumulative total score will be the final award result.
  3. Trophy and diploma are given to the awarded team in group competition, medal and diploma to the awarded athlete in individual competition; Trophy and diploma to the awarded athlete in all-around competition.

Referees & Jury

The Jury members, Chief Referees and the Head Referees for the Competition shall be appointed by the IHQF. The referees at competition shall be those selected from the referees Instruction Course of this event while the assistant referees are from the organizer.

Others

  1. The attires of the competitors shall be in keeping with Health Qigong characteristics. The style and color of members of a team for group competition shall be uniform. The shoes shall be those suitable for Health 6 Qigong exercises. Competitors on the competing floor shall wear the bib distributed by the organizing committee.
  2. All team leaders and coaches are requested to be present for the technical meeting as scheduled at 19:30 July 24th, 2025.
EN
ZH EN
Scroll to Top