On January 30, Ni Huizhong, secretary general of the Chinese sports delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics, said that at the opening ceremony, the standard-bearers of the Chinese delegation were identified as speed skater Gao Tingyu and steel frame snowmobile female athlete Zhao Dan.
Gao Tingyu (born December 15, 1997 in Yichun, Heilongjiang Province) is a Chinese speed skater.
In 2016, Gao Tingyu was selected for the Chinese speed skating team. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Gao Tingyu won the bronze medal in the men's 500m speed skating event with a time of 34.65 seconds, becoming the first Chinese male athlete to win a medal in speed skating at the Winter Olympics. In February 2020, Gao Tingyu skated a time of 34.282 seconds in the World Speed Skating Single Championships, setting a personal best record. On September 26, 2021, he set a new national record for the men's 500m in speed skating with a time of 33.83 seconds in the China Cup Speed Skating Elite League. At the same time, after entering the Olympic season, Gao Tingyu was in a relatively stable state in the World Cup sub-station, and repeatedly skated out of the 34 seconds of the performance.
Zhao Dan, female, born on December 14, 2002 in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is a Chinese steel-frame snowmobile.
In September 2018, Zhao Dan was selected for the China Steel Frame Snow Team. In the 2019/2020 season, she represented the Chinese team in the Youth Olympic Games in Switzerland for the first time and achieved a seventh place result. This is the first time that a Chinese women's steel frame snowmobile has landed on the WinterGreek Olympic Games. In the 2021/2022 season, he won the intercontinental cup in Innsbruck. The world cup best result is fifteenth place. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, she will represent China in the women's steel frame bobsleigh competition.