On February 11, Beijing time, the semi-final of the women's short track speed skating 1000 meters event of the Winter Olympics began, and in the semifinals, the Netherlands' Shultin and Italy's Fang Tana were both favorites to win the championship, Fang Tana was the 500-meter champion, and Shultin was the runner-up in the 500 meters, and the competition between the two was very interesting. In the finals, the two advanced together in the semi-finals.
How strong is Shultin? In the women's 1000m preliminary on February 9, she skated 1.27.292 to break the Olympic record, after the 1.28.053 held by South Korea's Choi Min-jin.
In the quarter-finals on February 11, Shultin skated a world record of 1.26.514 in the first group, after South Korea's Shin Seok-hee skated 1.26.661 on October 21, 2012, which means that Shultin has broken the record of 10 years.
In the 500m event, Shultin 42.379 also broke the Olympic record of 42.422 broken by Choi Min-ching in PyeongChang in 2018.
Italy's Fontana is also very good, she won the gold medal in the 500 meters event, the silver medal in the mixed team event, she skated 42.488 in the 500 meters, and Schulting in second place had 42.559.
In the semifinals, the first group of Shultin, South Korea's Li Youbin, Hungary's Pietra, Belgium's Demei led, the opening Shultin led the slide, Li Youbin was quickly thrown to the last place, the American player Mamm suddenly rushed to the second, and then Demei came to the second, Shultin or led the skating, the back players simply could not surpass her, and finally Shultin 1:28.108 promotion, after the referee went to see the video replay, Demei 1:28.166 promotion.
Italy's Fang Tana is in the second group, and South Korea's Choi Min-jing is also in the second group. Unexpectedly, Santos of the United States suddenly advanced to the first place in the group 1:26.78, and Fontana advanced to the second place in the group 1:26.82. South Korea's Choi Min-jin advanced to the Final of Group A.
Text/Yan Xiaobai