BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- On March 6, in the Women's Super Giant Slalom -Stand Competition of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Paralympic Alpine Skiing Women's Super Giant Slalom- Standing Position, China's Zhang Mengqiu won the gold medal with a time of 1:13.54.
China's Zhang Mengqiu (center) waits for the results to be announced after the match. China News Service reporter Han Haidan photographed
The women's standing slalom event is Zhang Mengqiu's strong point, ranking first in the world. In the first competition, she won silver in the women's downhill standing group competition, and in an interview at the award ceremony, Zhang Mengqiu confessed that she wanted to change the medal to gold. The next day, in her strongest category, she achieved her wish.
Born in 2002, Zhang Mengqiu came into contact with alpine skiing in 2016, and although she did not know much about it at the time, she loved sports since she was a child and decided to participate in this project.
Zhang Mengqiu in the game. China News Service reporter Han Haidan photographed
Along with love, there are countless sweats. Zhang Mengqiu's mother revealed in a previous interview that when she first came into contact with alpine skiing, due to physical reasons, Zhang Mengqiu's reaction speed was slower than others. It takes her two or three times as much time to master the movements that others can learn in an hour.
However, Zhang Mengqiu has the strength not to accept defeat, under the hard training and repeated technical actions, Zhang Mengqiu was selected for the National Paralympic Alpine Ski Team in 2017, and has gradually entered a better state since then. At the 2021 Asian Cup in Beijing, Zhang Mengqiu won three gold medals, and earlier this year, she won the gold medal in the 2022 World Cup Steinach am Brenne.
After the previous women's standing slalom event, Zhang Mengqiu once said: "I have been practicing for 6 years, just for this moment today. Obviously, for Zhang Mengqiu, who did not accept defeat, it was not just yesterday's "moment". This gold medal, Zhang Mengqiu deserves! (End)