Li Yan has been appointed as the head coach of the Chinese speed skating national training team and is leading the team to prepare for the battle

(Beijing Winter Olympics) Li Yan has been appointed as the head coach of the Chinese speed skating national training team and is leading the team to prepare for the war

Beijing, November 3 (China News Service) According to the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports of China, Li Yan, chairman of the Chinese Skating Association, has been appointed as the head coach of the national training team for speed skating.

Li Yan, 55, has long been the coach of the Chinese short track speed skating team. From 2006 to 2019, she led the Chinese team to win the Winter Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup and other major competitions for many times. He led the team to four, two and one gold medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

In May 2019, China decided to form a "Speed Skating and Short Track Speed Skating National Team", with Winter Olympic champion Wang Mao as the head coach, and Li Yan left the head coaching position of the Chinese short track speed skating team to serve only as the president of the Chinese Skating Association. At the end of April last year, Wang Meng left his post, and since then, the staff of the coaching team of the "Speed Skating and Short Track Speed Skating National Team" has not been announced to the public.

At the world cup ceremony of the short track speed skating team held last month, South Korean coach Kim Sun-tae served as the head coach of the Chinese short track speed skating team, which means that the short track speed skating and speed skating national teams that once operated together have been re-separated.

According to the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports, Gou Zhongwen, director of the General Administration of Sports of China, came to the CRRC 27 National Ice and Snow Sports Training Base in the western suburbs of Beijing on November 2 to visit the Winter Olympic preparation teams that are training here, including the speed skating national training team. According to the news, Gou Zhongwen learned more about the training of the team members to Li Yan, chairman of the Chinese Skating Association and head coach of the speed skating national training team, and affirmed the mental outlook of the team members.

According to the news, at present, Liang Linhua, Wang Xiuli and Han Jialiang are leading the training of the middle distance women's group, the middle distance men's group and the long distance men's group respectively, and the athletes mentioned in the article include Han Mei, Li Qishi, Yin Qi, Shen Hanyang, Wang Shuaihan and so on.

In recent years, the Chinese team has achieved good results in the speed skating event, and Zhang Hong achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the winter olympics for China in the women's 1000 meters at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Among the active players, Ning Zhongyan and Gao Tingyu have strong strength. (End)

Source: China News Network