On the morning of March 6, the Beijing Winter Paralympic Paralympic Cross-Country Skiing Competition was officially launched at the Zhangjiakou National Biathlon Center. In the men's long-distance (sitting) competition, Chinese athlete Zheng Peng won the gold medal, Mao Zhongwu won the silver medal and Du Tian finished fourth.
The men's long distance (sitting) event was the first event of cross-country skiing at the Winter Paralympic Paralympic Games, with a total distance of 18 kilometers, with Beijing athlete Zheng Peng ranking 11th. This is Zheng Peng's second time participating in the Winter Paralympic Games, and at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games, he finished fourth in the event, creating the best result of a Chinese athlete in the event. In this Winter Paralympic Games, Zheng Peng is determined to win.
At the beginning of the game, Zheng Peng showed great strength and stayed in the first group with his teammates. In the end, he crossed the finish line first with a time of 43:09.2 and won the gold medal as he wished, which was the first gold medal of a Chinese athlete in the Paralympic cross-country skiing event and the first gold medal of a Beijing athlete at the Winter Paralympic Games.
Project Description:
Paralympic cross-country skiing is the most widely developed winter sport for people with disabilities and has been included in the official competition since the first Winter Paralympic Games. At the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, Paralympic cross-country skiing was divided into three individual events: short distance, middle distance and long distance, as well as mixed relay and open relay, and the individual events were divided into three groups of sitting posture, standing posture and visual impairment according to the different disabilities of athletes, with a total of 20 sub-events. According to the rules, the race route requires about one-third of the uphill, downhill and undulating each. The results of the athletes in each group multiplied by the corresponding grading coefficients are the final results of the athletes.
According to the rules, the sitting athlete competes on a specially made sitting ski, which is a chair installed on a pair of skis, and the athlete sits on the chair and slides. Seated ski chairs include seat belts and suspensions, designed to be as lightweight as possible to reduce the burden on athletes and reduce physical exertion. Elastic components such as springs cannot be installed at each connection of the seat, the connection between the seat and the snowboard cannot be adjusted, and the athlete's thigh must be fixed to the seat using non-elastic straps.
Source: Beijing Daily Client | Reporters Wang Qipeng and Wang Yaxian
Editor: Wang Qiong
Process Editor: Dan Guo