At this Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team is likely to achieve a breakthrough in the middle and long distance of speed skating, and the key athlete is Ning Zhongyan. Although the 22-year-old has only been in the national team for more than 3 years, his growth and rise are still very fast, and he has also shown super strength. At the Winter Olympics on his doorstep, Ning Zhongyan had the hope of hitting the gold medal in the men's 1000m and 1500m speed skating events.
Young and promising
Ning Zhongyan was born in Harbin in November 1999 and has shown super athletic ability since he was a child.
After starting to skate continuously, the youngster born in the "ice city" has attracted the attention of people in the industry.
Rise of 2019
Ning Zhongyan entered the Chinese speed skating team in 2018, as the focus of the team's training object, Ning Zhongyan himself is also very hard working, and his efforts have quickly reaped the rewards.
In 2019, Ning Zhongyan's results were good, he won the men's championship in the short distance team pursuit of the national speed skating championships;
In the Canadian Cup speed skating men's 1000 meters, Ning Zhongyan ran 1 minute 7.89 seconds, directly breaking the national record.
In November 2019, at the Speed Skating World Cup in Minsk, Belarus, Ning Zhongyan not only won the silver medal in the men's team sprint, but also won the runner-up in the men's 1000 meters.
In The Speed Skating World Cup in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, in December, Ning Zhongyan won the men's 1500 meters championship with a time of 1 minute 44.91 seconds, breaking the field record, which is also a historic achievement of Chinese speed skating.
Sprint 2021
In 2020, due to the epidemic and other reasons, there are not many competitions.
Entering 2021, the youngster began to erupt, first in the 2020-2021 National Speed Skating Championships men's sprint all-around 1000 meters, followed by the national speed skating championships men's 1500 meters championships.
At the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Stavanger, Norway, Ning Zhongyan won the men's team race and the 1500 meters, achieving a double.
In December 2021, at the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Canada, Ning Zhongyan's time in the final of the men's 1000m Group A was 1:06.656, creating a personal best and winning the championship.
Qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics
It is precisely because of the consecutive championships in the World Cup sub-station, so the website of the Winter Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sport issued a notice saying that Ning Zhongyan was qualified to directly participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and Wu Dajing and others were in the list and did not need to participate in the play-offs.
Technical characteristics of Ning Zhongyan
In the men's 1000m and 1500m races, Ning Zhongyan performed strongly, his straight strength is not bad, but even more outstanding is his cornering skills, which are very prominent.
In the game, you can often see such a scene: Ning Zhongyan is not inferior to his opponent in the straight, and when he reaches the corner, he directly overtakes and shakes off the opponent.
In terms of endurance, Ning Zhongyan maintained his original advantage in the last two laps, while improving the strength of the first two laps, which is also the evaluation of Ning Zhongyan's head coach Kevin.
Strict and self-disciplined
In the 2021 World Cup, great results can be achieved, mainly from Ning Zhongyan's self-discipline and strictness.
His foreign head coach has won the Winter Olympics speed skating championship, but also trained a number of Olympic celebrities, in the comment of Ning Zhongyan said that Ning Zhongyan has a very sufficient physical reserves, which are all he has been training for a long time, and then Ning Zhongyan has been constantly training in speed training in recent times, very self-disciplined and hardworking, so it has created today's Ning Zhongyan.
The Beijing Winter Olympics three events impact medals
Ning Zhongyan participated in the events: men's 1000 meters, 1500 meters and team chase.
According to coach Wang Xiuli, Ning Zhongyan "has established a leading position in the recent men's 1000 meters and 1500 meters events, and tested the results of previous closed training", and it is indeed possible to make a huge breakthrough at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee's evaluation of Ning Zhongyan is: "Two years ago, in the World Cup kazakhstan station, Ning Zhongyan became famous in one battle, and this season, he also used 3 gold and 2 silver World Cup performances to lay a solid confidence for his preparation. ”
Looking forward to Ning Zhongyan's performance at the Beijing Winter Olympics, he is a key athlete who can achieve good results in Chinese speed skating, as a young player, the pressure is very high, but the motivation to play in the Winter Olympics for the first time is also sufficient, especially the Olympic Games at the doorstep, I hope Ning Zhongyan can have good luck.