Yangtze River Daily Wuhan Client, February 11 (Reporter Li Yuying) In the semi-finals of the men's 5,000-meter relay of short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics on the evening of February 11, the Chinese team composed of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Li Wenlong and Sun Long advanced to the final. At this Winter Olympic Games, many "post-00s" Olympic athletes, like Li Wenlong, are college students.
Li Wenlong studied at Beijing Sport University
On the evening of February 7, in the men's 1000-meter final of short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics, 21-year-old Li Wenlong won the silver medal, and the official WeChat public account of Beijing Sport University sent congratulations.
According to public information, Li Wenlong studied at Beijing Sport University, the highest institution of chinese sports, and is a 2020 undergraduate student at the China Ice Sports College.
On February 7, China's Li Wenlong presented the gift ceremony. Xinhua News Agency
Born in 2001, Li Wenlong joined the Qingdao short track speed skating team at the age of 11, where he studied under short track speed skating coaches Yang Zhanyu and Liu Xiaoying, focusing on the men's middle and long distance events.
In 2017, at the age of 16, Li Wenlong was selected for the short track speed skating national team for the first time. In the 2018-2019 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Salt Lake City, USA, Li Wenlong finished second in the men's 5,000m relay. In 2019, Li Wenlong teamed up with his teammates to help the Chinese team win the championship and break the world youth record in the men's 3000m relay final of the ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Youth Championships.
On June 12, 2020, the Department of College Students of the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Agreeing to the 2020 Guaranteed Admission of Athletes to 77 Colleges and Universities Including Tsinghua University, and Li Wenlong was escorted to Beijing Sport University.
After Winning the Silver Medal in the 1000m event, Li Wenlong will participate in the 5000m relay and other events in the next step, wishing him good results.
Zhao Jiawen studied at the Shanghai University of Sport
At the National Platform Center "Snow Ruyi", China Ice and Snow completed a new breakthrough again on the 9th - for the first time in the history of the Nordic biathlon of the Winter Olympics, a Chinese athlete appeared, he is Zhao Jiawen, a 2021 undergraduate student of the School of Physical Education and Training of Shanghai University of Sport.
China's Zhao Jiawen competes in cross-country skiing on Feb. 9. Xinhua News Agency
Zhao Jiawen was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi in 2001, from a young age to practice cross-country skiing, and later the State General Administration of Sport set up the Nordic national training team, he passed the cross-discipline selection into the training team, in 2016 officially began to practice Nordic biathlon.
Nordic two events developed late in China. In 2009, Chinese athletes competed in the Nordic biathlon at the Winter Universiade. In high-level competitions, the level of Chinese players is quite different from the world level, and before the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team had never qualified for the Winter Olympics.
Since starting to practice Nordic biathlon, Zhao Jiawen has not returned home for 6 years. Due to the difficulty of the project itself, the number of teammates around him was reduced from the initial 20 or so to only 5. With a strong momentum to the end, he persevered, and finally qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics, becoming the "first person" in China's Nordic biathlon.
Zhang Chutong studied at Northeast Normal University
On the evening of February 9, in the preliminary round of the short track speed skating women's 1000 meters, 19-year-old Zhang Chutong, Qu Chunyu and Han Yutong successfully advanced to the quarterfinals. According to the official website of Northeast Normal University, Zhang Chutong is a 2019 sports training student of the school's Physical Education College.
On February 9, China's Zhang Chutong was in the competition. She advanced with a time of 1:27.910. Xinhua News Agency
In the list of Chinese short track speed skating teams participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics, Zhang Chutong, who was born on February 17, 2003, is the youngest "Little Flower" and is about to celebrate her 19th birthday at the Winter Olympics.
Zhang Chutong is from Jilin City and began short track speed skating training from the second grade of primary school. Due to his eye-catching performance in the league, Zhang Chutong was selected for the national team and competed in the short track speed skating World Cup in Kazakhstan, Dresden and Turin, and won the bronze medal in the women's 1000 meters in Dresden.
Her enlightenment coach Jing Hongjun once said in an interview with the media that Zhang Chutong had some domineering spirit similar to Wang Meng in the short track speed skating competition, and his academic performance was also very good. "At that time, Zhang Chutong studied in the morning and trained in the afternoon, but he still scored more than 95 points in both subjects during the examination, and was praised by the class teacher as a model."
Wang Peixuan studied at Xi'an Institute of Physical Education
Wang Peixuan, a 22-year-old, made his winter Olympic debut in the women's single bobsleigh competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 8, and although he failed to make it to the final, the Beijing Winter Olympics will be a new starting point for the young Wang Peixuan.
On February 7, China's Wang Peixuan prepared to leave for the competition. Xinhua News Agency
Wang Peixuan is a student of the 2020 high-level class of Xi'an Institute of Physical Education. At the age of 13, he entered the Shaanxi Provincial Youth Sports School to practice javelin, and at the age of 15, he was selected to enter the first national bobsleigh training team in Chinese history through cross-border cross-discipline. In 2017, Wang Peixuan won the gold medal at the National Bobsleigh Championships. In 2019, she won the women's single bobsleigh event at the 14th All-Winter Games. In 2021, she not only appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, singing a song "Burning Snowflakes", but also won two silver medals in the team relay and the women's single at the National Bobsleigh Championships that year.
Through the hard work of 7 Beijing Winter Olympics points races, Wang Peixuan won the women's bobsleigh event Winter Olympics for China in a historic way and became the main player in China's women's bobsleigh event.
Lin Jiaxin studied at St. Lawrence University in the United States
On the 8th, the women's ice hockey group stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics ended, and the Chinese team missed the quarterfinals, ending the journey of the Winter Olympic Games. Lin Jiaxin, 19, is one of the youngest players on the Chinese women's hockey national training team.
Czech player Samantha Arne Kolovratova (left) and Chinese player Lin Jiaxin play during a match on Feb. 3. Xinhua News Agency
Lin Jiaxin's grandfather is from Guangdong, she was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. When the Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Hockey Club began to select ice hockey players in 2018 at olympic training camps in China and North America, Lin Jiaxin immediately signed up to join them.
In 2020, Lin Jiaxin entered the University of St. Lawrence in the United States, which is the first echelon team of the American Collegiate Hockey League.
In the summer of 2021, Lin Jiaxin suspended her studies and joined the Chinese women's hockey national training team preparing for the competition in Russia.
Lin Jiaxin recalls that she began to take skating classes when she was three or four years old, when her sister began to play ice hockey: "I thought playing ice hockey was fun, so I made the choice that young sisters usually make, that is, to follow her sister to play ice hockey." 」 ”
In addition to Lin Jiaxin, there are several "post-00s" in the Chinese women's ice hockey team who are studying at university.
Zhang Xifang, born in 2000, studied at st. Lawrence University, USA; Huang Hui'er, born in 2000, studied at the University of Connecticut; Kang Mulan, born in 2001, studied at the University of Minnesota Drus; Chen Tia, born in 2002, studied at the University of Connecticut; Fei Anna, born in 2000, studied at Robert Morris University in the United States.
(Synthesized from the People's Political Consultative Conference Daily, Qilu Evening News, Jilin Daily, China Sports News, Shaanxi Radio and Television Rong Media Group, Shangguan News, Nanfang Magazine, etc.)
【Editor: Ding Fei】
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