On February 27, Beijing time, today is the 5-day countdown to the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games. Below, we will popularize the relevant content of the Chinese Olympic team ---- the Paralympic snowboard team.
Project Description: Including slope slalom and obstacle chase two sub-items
Paralympic snowboarding is a racing event that involves crossing a certain number of flag gates and gliding at maximum speed on undulating pistes. At the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi, Paralympic snowboarding became an official event of the Winter Paralympic Games for the first time. However, at that time, it was a sub-category of Paralympic alpine skiing. At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games, Paralympic snowboarding separated from Paralympic alpine skiing and became an independent snow sport.
Athletes in competitions
The Beijing Winter Paralympic Winter Games Paralympic snowboarding, which includes slope slalom and obstacle course chase, will be played at the Genting Ski Park in Zhangjiakou. Considering the safety of Paralympic athletes, the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games did not set up snowboard jumping platforms, slope obstacle course skills, and U-shaped track skills competitions.
The snowboard slope slalom track is irregular terrain with appropriate slopes, with a vertical drop between 100 meters and 250 meters, a track length between 400 meters and 1000 meters, a ski width of at least 25 meters, a track width of at least 4 meters, and an average gradient of about 14 degrees; the vertical drop of the obstacle course is between 100 meters and 250 meters, the length of the track is between 500 meters and 1000 meters, the width of the slope is 40 meters, the width of the track is 10 meters, and the average slope is about 12 degrees.
Genting Ski Park
The slope rotation takes the form of a single time trial, the athletes slide for two rounds, and the results of the shortest round determine the final ranking' The obstacle chase adopts the pre-final system, and the preliminary round adopts the single time trial form, each person has two rounds of skating opportunities, and the best result is ranked. The final is a doubles elimination match, with athletes in pairs, and the athlete who passes the finish line first advances to the next round until the winner and runner-up are decided.
China Team Profile: Many players have the strength to impact medals
China has not been practicing Paralympic snowboarding for a long time, and it was only at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Winter Games in 2018 that it competed for the first time. However, the development speed is relatively fast, in the Netherlands, Finland, Dubai and other World Cup sub-stations and world championships in 2018, There are Chinese disabled athletes who have won the championship.
After a cycle of preparation, Chinese Paralympics are very hopeful to achieve a breakthrough at the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games. The opening of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games is imminent, the preparation of the Chinese Legion has entered the final sprint moment, and many athletes have the strength to impact the medals of the Winter Paralympic Games.
Li Zhipeng, coach of the Chinese paralympic snowboard team, said that disabled athletes have made more efforts in order to realize the same Olympic dream as able-bodied people, and the spirit of hard work, positivity, mutual help and fraternity of disabled athletes is touching, and these spirits of disabled athletes will be more displayed at the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, interpreting the same wonderful pursuit of the two Olympic Games by Paralympic athletes.
Situation analysis: 18 players competed to achieve a historic breakthrough
At the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, the Chinese Paralympic Snowboard Team will send 18 people to compete. Among them, there are four female athletes, namely Li Tiantian, Hu Nianjia, Geng Yanhong, and Wang Xinyu; and 14 male athletes, namely Zhang Yiqi, Wu Zhongwei, Liu Gengliang, Ji Lijia, Wang Pengyao, Zhu Yonggang, Jiang Zihao, He Yipeng, Xu Xiang, Liu Yiyang, Sun Qi, Yang Jian, Liu Kaiyang, and Yan Wen.
On January 19 this year, the 2022 World Paralympic Snowboarding National Championships were held in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, and the Chinese team won 8 gold, 8 silver and 7 bronze. As an important warm-up event before the Winter Paralympic Games, the outstanding performance of Chinese athletes also enhanced the confidence of winning medals and even gold medals at the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games.
Ji Lijia
In 2019, Ji Lijia, a young man from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, won the gold medal in the Paralympic Snowboard World Cup Finnish Obstacle Course, and Hu Nianjia from Zhangjia City won the runner-up of the 2022 World Paralympic Snowboard World Cup Women's LL2 Snowboard Slope Slalom Project. (Huang Kai)