The third leg of the Chinese short track speed skating team's Winter Olympic Selection Tournament is in full swing

On January 14, the Chinese short track speed skating team entered the final stop of the Winter Olympic Selection Tournament. Ankai continued his previous good form, winning the men's 500m and 1500m races in the first matchday of the third race, and continued to attack the last men's Winter Olympic quota.

Because of their outstanding performance in the previous 4 World Cup matches, Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics in advance. Other qualifications will be selected from the 3 selection rounds. In the first race, Zhang Tianyi and Zhang Yuting took the lead in qualifying for the competition with their outstanding performances. In the second race, Li Wenlong and Fan Kexin won the Winter Olympic place with leading points. Although Ankai won the men's three championships, he still failed to get a ticket because the points were not dominant. In this way, the third race is the last chance for him.

In the men's 500 meters race on the afternoon of the 14th, Sun Long successfully grabbed the leading position after starting, Yu Songnan constantly tried to overtake through the inner and outer lanes, resulting in a collision between the two people affecting the speed, and An Kai took the opportunity to complete the overtaking and won the championship in 42.495 seconds. However, his results still failed to reach the Shougang Challenge (40.882 seconds) and he still did not get valid points.

In the men's 1500m competition that followed, in the first group of the semi-finals, Chen Dequan showed a good competitive state, pressing on Song Nan, Zhong Yuchen and other players, ranking first; the other group, An Kai was not impatient in the first half, and the last 5 laps began to accelerate and won the first place. There were 7 players in the final, namely Chen Dequan, Yu Songnan, Zhong Yuchen, Ren Haobo, An Kai, Lin Xiaoyu and Zhu Yijie. In the competition, An Kai skated very strongly, successfully resisted the impact of Lin Xiaoxiao, won the championship, and Lin Xiaoxiao won the second place.

In the women's group, in the 500m race, Qu Chunyu remained in the leading state after the start, followed by Han Yutong. In the end, Qu Chunyu led the way and won the championship. The process of the 1500-meter race is relatively tortuous, the 7 runners who entered the final skated relatively smoothly in the initial stage, and all began to speed up in the third lap, and Han Yutong completed the overtaking from the outside and was in the position of leading the skate. In the last lap, Zang Yize, who was in third place, accelerated, successfully surpassed Han Yutong and Guo Yihan, and reversed to get the first place. Han Yutong collided with his teammates in the last lap of the sprint and both fell off the track, and was eventually cancelled due to fouls.

Although in terms of results, the first matchday of the third race did not improve compared with the first two races, but because this was already the last leg of the selection, the competition was obviously more intense. In addition to Han Yutong's cancellation of results due to fouls, in the final of the men's 1500 meters, there was also a rush to run. On the 15th, the last two events of the third leg of the selection competition , the men's and women's 1000 meters competition , will be held until the competition is completed, and the last few places for the Chinese short track speed skating team Beijing Winter Olympics will be all generated.