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According to CCTV News, on February 11, the seventh competition day of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, seven gold medals will be produced. Short track speed skating women's 1000m three-person rush gold, Wu Dajing began to defend the title.
Three Chinese women will attack the gold medal
It is reported that at 19:00 beijing time on February 11, the short track speed skating women's 1000 meters final will be held at the Capital Gymnasium. In the previous preliminary round, the Chinese team Qu Chunyu, Han Yutong and Zhang Chutong all advanced.
According to the schedule, the short track speed skating women's 1000 meters will compete in the quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals, and in the quarterfinals, Han Yutong and Qu Chunyu will be divided into group 1, and Zhang Chutong will compete in group 3.
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The previous preliminaries were the first appearances of Han Yutong and Zhang Chutong at the Winter Olympics and achieved good results; Qu Chunyu, who had just helped The Chinese team win the mixed relay championship, was the highest ranking player in the world among the three, but only ranked 15th.
According to the China Sports News, South Korea's Choi Min-jing, Li Youbin and Dutch star Shu Erting are also on the promotion list. Whether the Chinese girl can form a group advantage to bring surprises, or whether the Korean players maintain the advantage, or Shultin successfully defended the title and made history, the results remain to be revealed.
In the history of the women's 1000 meters of short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics, it is almost a contest between China and South Korea, with the two teams winning 16 of the 21 medals in the event, and the gold medal has not been left before 2018. It was not until the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang that Dutchman Schulting won the gold medal and broke the monopoly between China and South Korea.
The Dutch team is a strong team in speed skating, but it has gained very little in short track speed skating, and The gold medal won by Shultin at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is the first short track speed skating gold medal of the Dutch team at the Winter Olympics, and if she wins the championship again, she will be the second runner to win the women's 1000 meters gold medal after South Korea's Jeon Li Qing.
Shultin will play in the first group of the quarter-finals, with Han Yutong and Qu Chunyu in the same group. According to the rules, the top two players in each of the four groups will advance directly, and the third place in the two best groups will be selected to advance. Schulting set a new club record in the preliminaries with a time of 1:27.292 and won the silver medal in the women's 500m in the already concluded race. It is not easy for Han Yutong and Qu Chunyu to press Shu Erting to qualify for the promotion.
The 18-year-old Zhang Chutong is participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, and she will advance to the preliminary round with the fastest third place in the group, and in the quarter-finals, she will meet italian veteran Fontana, who has just won the women's 500 meters championship. Being able to compete with the masters is a rare opportunity for the young Zhang Chutong, who will go all out and spell herself.
The other two groups to focus on are South Korean Choi Min-jing. As the leader of South Korea's women's short track speed skating, Choi Min Jing is committed to replacing the fourth place at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics with a medal. In the four World Cups this season, she retired from the first race with an injury, and also hung up the exemption card in the second leg, and won 1 gold and 1 silver after returning from the last two stops. Although the record set by Choi Min-jing in the preliminaries was broken by Shultin, she had already shown her ability to break the medals.
In addition, there are two other players that are also worth paying attention to. Poland's Natalia Maliszewska has performed well in this season's World Cup, with American Kriston Santos winning the women's 1,000m gold medal at the World Cup in Nagoya.
The Chinese short track speed skating team has already won 2 gold and 1 silver in this Winter Olympics, as Fan Kexin said: "The most important thing to achieve good results is the strength of the team." "The upcoming women's 1000m race, I hope the girls will relax their minds and leave no regrets.
Wu Dajing began the journey of defending his title!
On the evening of February 11, Beijing time, the men's 500m preliminary competition for short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics will be staged. The day before, the preliminary grouping situation was announced, and the defending champion Wu Dajing appeared in the last group, and Ren Ziwei and Sun Long were divided into the second and seventh groups.
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing won the only gold medal for the Chinese delegation in the men's 500 meters of short track speed skating. As the defending champion of the event, Wu Dajing is one of the most watched athletes on the field.
Infographic: Wu Dajing in the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
In the upcoming preliminary round on the evening of the 11th, Wu Dajing was divided into the last group, along with Italy's Petro Sigil, The Netherlands' Dylan Hochwev and China's Hong Kong athlete Zhu Dingwen, these three opponents are difficult to pose a threat to Wu Dajing's qualifications.
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