In the early morning of December 13, Beijing time, the 2021/2022 Speed Skating World Cup Calgary station entered the last match day. In the men's 1000m Group A final, China's Ning Zhongyan won the championship in 1:06.656 and set a personal season best.
Ning Zhongyan (center) and the runner-up and third runner-up
A total of 20 contestants participated in the final, divided into 10 groups. Ning Zhongyan was in the fifth group, and the opponent in the same group was Japan's Ryota Kojima. After the start of the race, Ning Zhongyan showed good form, taking 16.57 seconds on the first lap. From the second lap, Ning Zhongyan began to accelerate and complete the overtaking, the second lap took 41.06 seconds, and Kojima Ryota 41.22 seconds. In the last lap, Ning Zhongyan sprinted hard and finally crossed the finish line with 1 minute 06.656 seconds, ranking first among the players who had appeared, and also creating his personal best of the season, and the five groups of runners who appeared later did not surpass Ning Zhongyan.
In the end, Ning Zhongyan won the championship in 1:06.656, Stolts of the United States was runners-up in 1:06.968, and Ning Muchotakoff of Russia was runner-up in 1:06.988, and all three players created individual PB. (Huang Kai)
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