At 6:30 p.m. on February 8, the final of the men's 1500 meters of speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics will be staged at the National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon". Ning Zhongyan, a famous Chinese player who has won gold in this world cup event this season, will attack the good results.
Ning Zhongyan was born on November 3, 1999 in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Province, for his first time participating in the Winter Olympics. In the 2021-2022 season, the Chinese youngster, who is known as the "Golden Boy of China" by the International Skating Union, participated in the main event 1500 meters three times in the Four Races of the World Cup, including the gold medal in Norway in the second leg, the second leg in Poland after South Korea's Kim Min-suk, and the third leg in Salt Lake City after the American famous Joey Mandia, with a total of 1 gold and 2 silver.
Ning Zhongyan's main competitors in the 1500m final of the Beijing Winter Olympics are Mandia and Kim Min-suk, as well as two Dutch players Naus and Krul, who are in average form but absolutely strong in this season's World Cup. According to information released by the IOC's Information Service System (INFO), Ning Zhongyan will play in group 14 (penultimate group) of this final, and his opponents in the same group are 30-year-old Japan's Sauro Oda, Kim Min-seok and Mandia in group 11 and 13 respectively.
In previous Winter Olympics, only Zhang Hong, a Chinese athlete, won the gold medal in the women's 1,000 meters at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.