Yang Hongqiong
The National Biathlon Center on the 6th once again attracted widespread attention from the media and the audience, following the two biathlon gold medals won a day ago, the Chinese Winter Paralympic sports delegation once again gained something in this blessed land, Zheng Peng and Yang Hongqiong helped the Chinese team win the gold medal in the men's and women's cross-country skiing long-distance sitting event, "Nijin Double Gold" also let the Winter Paralympic cross-country skiing team on the "hot search", in fact, as the winter Paralympic Chinese delegation participated in the largest number of competitions, All 32 Chinese athletes will show their competitiveness in this event.
On March 6, yang Hongqiong (No. 31) won the gold medal and Li Panpan (33) won the bronze medal in the women's 15 km (sitting group) competition of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games
Four years ago at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games, the cross-country skiing team attracted everyone's attention with its outstanding performances, and this time, they once again highlighted China's strong competitiveness in this project with strong strength and large number of participants.
All along, China's overall competitiveness in the winter Paralympic snow sports is not too strong, but in the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games 4 years ago, in the cross-country skiing event, the Chinese male athlete Zheng Peng won the 4th place in the 15-kilometer sitting position, equaling the best record in the history of the Chinese team in the snow sports at that time, perhaps many people do not know that in addition to him, there are 4 Chinese athletes in that race, they are gao Xiaoming and Huang Bitao, who won the 14th and 16th places, respectively, as well as Huang Feixiang and Xu Congjun, who won the 19th and 20th places.
Zheng Peng
Although the results are not outstanding, but can be in a project as many as 5 people to qualify for the Winter Paralympic Games and successfully finished, it has to be said that China still has a good strength in the Paralympic cross-country skiing event, and in the Beijing Winter Paralympic cycle, in order to have a more outstanding performance in this competition at home, the cross-country skiing team has also made arduous efforts, hard preparation and hard training in exchange for the two small events won on the first day of this project 4 medals, Among them, including the two gold medals won by Zheng Peng and Yang Hongqiong, the strength of the Chinese team is beyond doubt.
On March 6, in the men's 18 km (sitting) competition of cross-country skiing at the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, Zheng Peng (No. 11) won the gold medal, Mao Zhongwu (No. 13) won the silver medal, and Du Tian (No. 8) won the fourth place
What is even more gratifying is that in this cross-country skiing event, a total of 32 athletes from the Chinese team have qualified for various levels of competition (14 female athletes and 18 male athletes), which is the largest number of all participating teams, the second-ranked Ukrainian team, with only 19 participants. It can be said that the Chinese team has a good personnel reserve in cross-country skiing. From the current situation, the Chinese team not only has excellent strength in the sitting posture project, but also has the possibility of impacting medals and gold medals in the standing posture and visual impairment projects, it can be said that the Chinese team has a good competitiveness in the cross-country skiing event, or will continue to bring surprises to Chinese audiences in the next few competition days.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Kunlong
Photo / Beijing Youth Daily reporter Hu Jinxi
Editor/Xu Zhao