Break the 20-year record! Shaoten's speed skating debuted, and Adak defeated the legendary star
On February 5, Beijing time, the Beijing Winter Olympics ushered in the first competition day of competition. Speed skating ushered in the first gold medal event – the women's 3,000 meters competition. This time, the Chinese team has two people who won the quota, they are Han Mei and Adak.
Han Mei is now ranked 15th in the world and her best recent achievement was 12th in the Speed Skating World Cup in Calgary. She will start in today's seventh group of the outside road, against the current world number 11 Belarusian Zuyeva, which is no small challenge for Han Mei.
Another Chinese player, Adak, ranked 27th in the world, has shown a very good competitive state in the last few World Cup races, and her results have been steadily moving forward, and she finished 6th in Calgary, setting a new personal best.
She was divided into the inner road of the first group today, the opponent is the legendary Peshstein, the 49-year-old she is already a veteran of the 8 Dynasties of the Olympic Games, with an impressive record of 5 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze, and the Adakh age gap is 27 years old, which is a veritable "battle between old and young".
At present, in this project, the two Chinese players do not have the strength to impact the medals, what they have to do is to play at home to play the best state and strive to create their own personal best results.
Group 1: Adak vs Peschstein
At the start of the race, both skated very well on the first lap, both staying within 21 seconds. The next few laps were still able to keep the two between 33 seconds and 34 seconds, and the coaches on the sidelines also kept holding up the timing card so that the players could learn their results in each lap in time.
For a medium- and long distance event like the 3,000m, the distribution of physical strength is very critical to getting a point, with three laps left in the race, Adak has already achieved a large lead, and in the last lap Adak began to accelerate, and finally she rushed through the focus first, with a time of 4:12.28, and the German veteran's time of 4:17.16.
Throughout the glide, Adak maintained a very good efficiency and posture, and the gliding rate per lap was also in good shape.
The second group of competition between the United States Kilberg and kazakhstan's Morozova, the overall pace of the first three is faster than the first group of players, the overall gliding of both is very smooth, Morozova directly from the fourth lap to get a very large lead. In the end, Morozova crossed the finish line first, with a time of 4:04.97, temporarily ranking first among all the runners.
The third group consisted of Japan's Miho Takagi and Dutchman Ahertricht, and in the first lap, Japan's pace was good, sliding in 20 seconds. Then she still maintained a very good overall state, and the Dutch players also had a good gliding state, and both of them had very good results. In the end, the Japanese skated 4:01.77, ranking first among all the players.
In the fourth group, the Czech Zdrakhalova played against the Russian player Larenkova, the Russian player gradually opened the gap after three laps, maintaining a lead of nearly half a lap, and finally she took the lead in the line, with a time of 4 minutes 03.42 seconds, not surpassing the players in the previous group, temporarily ranking third.
In the fifth group, Canada's Martey played against Russia's Voronina, who had maintained the lead since the start of the race and maintained their pace of about 31 seconds per lap. However, after 2000 meters, her speed was still slightly dropped, and she was not able to withstand the last lap, and the final result was 4 minutes 03.84 seconds, temporarily ranking fourth.
The sixth group of Japan's Ayano Sato against the Netherlands de Jong He, when there are 6 laps left in the game, De Jong He began to complete the counter-overtaking, and constantly expanded his lead, but with three laps left, De Jong He's overall pace began to decline, the Japanese player completed the overtaking, and then the two were basically in a state of side by side, and the overall speed was not fast, and finally the Dutch runner took the lead in crossing the finish line, the time was 4 minutes 02 seconds 37, ranking to the third place.
Group Seven: Han Mei vs Zuyeva
Both are the holders of the women's 3000m record in their respective countries, but the overall speed and state of the two in the first lap were not adjusted, the two began to enter a state of alternating leadership, in the last three laps the two began to have a relatively obvious drop, the race entered the last lap, Han Mei completed the overtaking through the inner lane, and finally slid out of the 4 minutes 07.47 seconds, temporarily ranking ninth among all the players.
In the eighth group, Sablikova of the Czech Republic played against Canada's Brontin, who was the world record holder and the one who had the ability to impact the gold medal in this competition. The overall pace of the first lap of the two was very fast, and the physical condition was very good. After 3 laps, Sabrikova ranked first among all, and the last two laps of Sabrikova still kept the pace of each lap within 32 seconds, and finally she crossed the finish line with a time of 4 minutes 0.34 seconds, successfully reaching the first place in the overall performance.
In the ninth group, Canada's Weidman played against Norway's Viklund, who was overall stable after the start, and began to slowly accelerate in the march, and the amplitude of the swing arm was also very flat. In the final three laps, Viklund was in the first place overall, and Wiedemann also completed the czech player's surpass. The two advanced to the final lap, and Wiedeman completed the overtaking of Vickerund, finally sliding out of 3:58.64 to reach the first place.
The final group of players appeared, Italy's Lolo Brygida against the Netherlands' Shaoten, and the two world's top two players played directly. Both men entered within 20 seconds of the first lap, with the Italians firing at the start, followed by Shaoten, who was very stable overall.
On the last four laps, Shaoten began to pick up speed, reaching the first place on the last two laps. In the final lap, the two were still inseparable, both began to make the final sprint, Shaoten finally 3 minutes 56 seconds 93, breaking the 20-year Olympic record, successfully won the gold medal.