champion! champion! champion! champion!
The fourth gold medal of the Chinese delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics was born!
On the afternoon of February 12, Gao Tingyu won the gold medal by beating 29 finalists including the last Winter Olympic speed skating champion Lorensen with his outstanding performance in the men's speed skating 500m final.
After this battle, Gao Tingyu became the first Chinese male athlete to win a gold medal in the speed skating event at the Winter Olympics. At the same time, he broke the event's Winter Olympic record with a time of 34.32 seconds. Today is also a day to call athletes for the motherland!
And Gao Tingyu can achieve such results, which can be said to be both surprising and expected.
As early as February 2018, Gao Tingyu won the bronze medal in the men's 500m speed skating at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics with a time of 34.65 seconds, becoming the first Chinese male athlete to win a medal in speed skating at the Winter Olympics. Today's wave can be said to have "defeated" itself.
In February 2020, Gao Tingyu skated in 34.282 seconds at the World Speed Skating Single Championships, setting a personal best record.
In the Speed Skating World Cup in Canada in December 2021, Gao Tingyu won a silver medal with a time of 33.876 seconds.
Today's gold grab can be said to be a continuation of Gao Tingyu's super high competitive level. China's speed skating men's first man, did not disappoint everyone! This also brought the number of gold medals of the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics to four. At present, the Chinese team has advanced another place in the medal table and temporarily ranked seventh.
The player, who has been selected for the Chinese speed skating team since 2016, has another identity at the Winter Olympics: the standard-bearer of the Chinese sports delegation at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Gao Tingyu (dressed in white) served as the standard-bearer at the Winter Olympics
Presumably, friends who have seen the opening ceremony are quite impressed by this sunny big boy! Today, the glorious standard-bearer has one more "identity" - a glorious "champion".
Let's once again congratulate The First Man of Chinese Speed Skating - Gao Tingyu!
Text / Jenny Ma