On the evening of February 5, Beijing time, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics short track speed skating mixed team relay final, with a time of 2 minutes 37 seconds 348 seconds to win the championship, which is the first gold medal won by the Chinese delegation in the Winter Olympics.
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With the outstanding performances of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu, the Chinese team won the short track speed skating 2000m mixed team relay championship and won the first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics for the Chinese delegation.
Short track speed skating 2000 meters mixed team relay is a new project of the Beijing Winter Olympics, all 2000 meters of distance by the male and female two players to participate in the completion, which examines the comprehensive strength of a team in short track speed skating, and puts forward all-round requirements for male and female players in terms of individual technology, individual physical fitness, team tactics, mutual cooperation and other aspects.
The mixed team relay first appeared in the public eye at the 2017-2018 ISU "Shanghai Super Cup" Grand Prix. In July 2018, the IOC Executive Committee listed the short track speed skating mixed team relay event as the official event of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and the INTERNATIONAL Skating Federation also listed the event as one of the events of the 2018-2019 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup.
The Chinese team, which is balanced between men and women, has shown a very strong competitiveness in this project from the beginning. In the 2018-2019 short track speed skating World Cup in Canada, Fan Kexin, Li Jinyu, Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei worked together to help the Chinese team win the first mixed team relay gold medal in the history of the World Cup. In the 2019-2020 short track speed skating World Cup in the Netherlands and Canada, the Chinese team won the championship in this event.
In the 2021-2022 season, the Chinese team is even more overwhelming, four World Cup four times on the podium - Beijing station, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and Zhang Yuting won the championship; Japan, still the four of them played to win the silver medal; Hungary, Ren Ziwei, Sun Long, Fan Kexin and Zhang Yuting won the crown; the Netherlands station, Ren Ziwei, Sun Long, Fan Kexin and Zhang Chutong won the bronze medal.
In a month's time, it has won two gold, one silver and one bronze, and has repeatedly broken the world record, and the mixed team relay has long been regarded as the most promising gold medal in China's short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Not only is the outside looking forward to this gold medal, but also the interior is determined to win the first gold of short track speed skating.
After the team entered the Winter Olympic Village, Jin Shantai, the head coach of the Chinese short track speed skating team, took the mixed team relay as the focus of preparation, and Wu Dajing also said during the pre-game training: "Our team is very competitive in the relay event, which is our favorite project, and my teammates and I will go all out to give the Chinese delegation a sample." ”
With the outstanding results of the four World Cups, the Chinese team ranked first in the mixed group relay world with an absolute advantage of 28,000 points, the Netherlands and Hungary ranked second and third respectively, and these two teams are also the biggest opponents of the Chinese team, in addition, the Russian and South Korean teams also have good strength in the project.
In the previous World Cup, the Chinese team tried to practice a number of sets of lineups, and in the quarterfinals that opened first tonight, the Chinese team sent the strongest combinations such as Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu to fire the first shot of the relay. In the quarterfinals, there were three groups of 12 teams participating, the Chinese team and the South Korean team, Italy team, Poland team in the first group, in the end, the Chinese team with 2 minutes 37 seconds 535 group first easily advanced to the semifinals, the opponent South Korea team because of the fall only ranked third in the group did not qualify.
And the subsequent semi-final can be described as ups and downs, the Chinese team and Hungary, the United States team, the Russian Olympic team in the same group, Zhang Yuting replaced Fan Kexin on the field, but the Chinese team was interfered with by the United States team and the Russian Olympic team when handing over the baton, and finally tried their best to only get the third place in the group, but the referee finally ruled that the Russian Olympic team and the United States team were judged to be fouled, so that the Chinese team advanced to the final with the second place in the group.
Fan Kexin made his debut in the Group A final, with China competing with Canada, Hungary and Italy for the first of nine gold medals in the short track speed skating arena. The game was extremely fierce, the first corner of the first shot fell, the game restarted, the most foreign Chinese team did not occupy the lead from the beginning, but Qu Chunyu completed the overtaking to rise to the second, Ren Ziwei continued to surpass to the first, the Chinese team did not give up the position of the first place, and finally Wu Dajing took the lead in crossing the finish line, and the Chinese team won the gold medal with a time of 2 minutes 37 seconds 348.
The five-star red flag flew at the Capital Gymnasium, and the Chinese team made history and reached the championship podium, just as Wu Dajing said: they gave the Chinese delegation a model, they perfectly demonstrated their ability, and they fulfilled their pre-match commitments.
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