Photo courtesy of the winners of the Winter Games Center
Zhongxin Online Hai, December 20 (Reporter Miao Lu Xing Chong) Huangpu Riverside ushered in Shanghai's first real snow event - 2021-2022 Bank of China • International Snow Federation City Cross-country Skiing China Tour Shanghai Station on the 19th in Yangpu Binjiang Green Hill ended.
The event was hosted by the International Ski Federation and co-organized by the Winter Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China, the China Ski Association, and the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau. On the first race day on the 18th, in the 1.5 km free technology competition, Wang Qiang won the men's group, Shang Jincai and Russian athlete Nikita Egorov won the second and third places respectively; Dinigel Yilamujiang won the women's group, Bayani Garin and Russian athlete Anastasia Moskalenko won the second and third places respectively.
Runners on the track Winter Games Center courtesy of the picture
In the team sprint free technology competition that ended on the 19th, the women's team short distance free technology won the third place in the Chinese team's Kong Weijia and Ma Qinghua, the runner-up was Bayani Garin and Chi Chunxue, and the champion was Li Xin and Diniger Yilamujiang of the Chinese team. In the men's team sprint free technical competition, China's Wang Qiang and Shang Jincai won the championship, the runners-up were Russian athletes Ivan Kirilov and Nikita Egorov, and the runners-up were Russian athletes Konstantin Gravackikh and Raul Shakirzianov.
In order to maximize the promotion and popularization of skiing, in the 1990s the International Snow Federation moved cross-country skiing events to the city, which is held annually in national landmark buildings. Since its first time in Yan'an in March 2018, the FIS City Cross-Country Skiing China Tour has been held in Beijing Bird's Nest, Shougang, Yanqing, Tianjin, Hangzhou and other places, and has been highly recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the International Snow Federation. Mr. John Eliasch, President of the International Snow Federation, paid great attention to the Shanghai competition of the City Cross-Country Skiing China Tour, and said in a previous video meeting with Gou Zhongwen, Director General of the State Administration of Sports, that he was very much looking forward to the Shanghai competition and wished the competition a complete success.
Athletes in the competition Winter Games Center courtesy of the picture
Shanghai as the ice and snow sports "south exhibition westward expansion eastward" strategy of "eastward expansion" bridgehead, Yangpu Riverside, a landmark building that has witnessed Shanghai's century-old industrial development, Shanghai conscientiously practices the "people-centered" concept of running the competition, through the practical measures of holding this cross-country skiing competition to contribute to the Beijing Winter Olympics; on the other hand, it also provides the people of Shencheng with the opportunity to understand ice and snow, participate in ice and snow, and help "drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports" The grand goal; at the same time, it also fills the gap in holding international snow events. It has accelerated the construction process of Shanghai's world-famous sports city. In this Shanghai race, the city cross-country skiing light show was also specially added, and the cross-country skiers wore colored lights and held glowing ski poles, and flew on the track under the lights, and for a time the Huangpu River was full of lights and lively.
The competition adopts the international advanced environmental protection and energy-saving urban high-temperature snowmaking technology, SNOW FACTORY equipment will introduce water into the snow container, cool and freeze in the box, and then promote the machine to grind, polished into snow after the compressed air blows out of the box to form snowflakes. This kind of high-temperature snowmaking has low energy consumption, low loss and zero pollution to the surrounding environment, and is currently the most respected urban snowmaking model. Through the help of science and technology, southern cities have the conditions to carry out cross-country skiing, making the "cold sport" of ice and snow a "hot fashion" in the streets and alleys. The "Shanghai Experience" of hosting the City Race will also provide demonstration and valuable experience for other cities. (End)