The first leg of the short track speed skating selection competition ended Zhang Tianyi and Zhang Yuting qualified for the Winter Olympics

On the afternoon of January 11, the first leg of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Short Track Speed Skating Selection Competition ended at the Beijing Shougang Winter Training Base. In the women's 1000m Group A final, Zhang Chutong led the way to win the championship, while Sun Long won the men's 1000m race. With the end of the first three events for men and women, Zhang Tianyi and Zhang Yuting, who were leading in total points, also took the lead in qualifying for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Zhang Tianyi

This test race is the first of the three races, and the first race between men and women in the 500 meters and 1500 meters on the 10th is the first time. Among them, the finals of the men's 1500 meters and the women's 1500 meters are extremely fierce. In the final of the men's 1500m Group A, 7 players skated very fiercely, An Kai and Li Wenlong almost collided, and Zhang Tianyi laughed to the end in the chaotic battle and won the championship. In the women's 1500m Group A final, Guo Yihan took the lead in crossing the finish line by a slight advantage to win the championship. In the women's 500 meters, veteran Fan Kexin withstood the pressure to win the championship, and Wang Xinran won the second place. In the men's 500m Group A final, Sun Long won the championship and Li Wenlong won the second place. On the 11th, the men's and women's 1000 meters race was held. In the women's 1000 meters, Zhang Chutong, who started from the inside of the track, led the skating from the beginning and finally won the championship with a time of 1 minute 30.766 seconds, while Sun Long, who had already won the men's 500 meters championship, went to the next city and won the championship with a time of 1 minute 28 seconds 149 seconds.

Less than an hour after the end of the game, the referee team also announced the list of players who won the first place in the first round of total points, and finally Zhang Tianyi and Zhang Yuting took the lead in qualifying for the Beijing Winter Olympics. In this regard, Bian Weihua, chief referee of the International Skating Federation, said: "First of all, congratulations to Zhang Tianyi and Zhang Yuting for qualifying for the Beijing Winter Olympics. Judging from the competition selection principle, this time we are not using individual rankings to determine the qualification for the Winter Olympic Games. In the case of Sun Long, he won two championships in this race, but in the end his points were not the highest among the men's players. This is because our selection method pays more attention to the gliding results of each round, and the performance points of each round plus the points of the finish line are the final effective points. Therefore, in the next two races, players who want to qualify for the Winter Olympic Games must also pay more attention to the problem of maintaining rhythm. ”