The fifth match day of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games——
The Chinese delegation won two gold medals in 20 minutes
Guangming Daily, Beijing, March 9 (Reporter Wang Dong) On the 9th, in the Men's Short Distance (Sitting) Competition of Paralympic Cross-Country Skiing, China's Zheng Peng and Mao Zhongwu won the first and second places. In the women's short distance (sitting) competition of Paralympic cross-country skiing that followed, Yang Hongqiong won the championship. In just 20 minutes, the Chinese delegation won two consecutive gold medals, and Zheng Peng and Yang Hongqiong both became the "double champions" of the Winter Paralympic Games.
On March 9, Yang Hongqiong was in the game. Photo by Li Jie, reporter of Guangming Daily/Guangming Pictures
On March 6, Zheng Peng was in the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Huhu
On March 9, in the wheelchair curling round robin tournament of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games held at the Beijing National Aquatics Center "Ice Cube", the Chinese team defeated Slovakia 7-5. The picture shows Yan Zhuo (right), a Chinese player, throwing a pot during a match. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Hui
So far, the number of gold medals of the Chinese delegation at the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games has reached 10, in addition to 9 silver medals and 12 bronze medals. From the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games to the first gold medal in history to the leading medal table today, the brilliant performance of China's disabled athletes is the epitome of the vigorous development of China's sports for the disabled.
The Chinese wheelchair curling team today won 7-5 against Slovakia and Norway 7-4 to achieve six consecutive round-robin wins, and the current record is 6 wins and 2 losses, tied for first place with Sweden. The Chinese Paralympic Ice Hockey Team today won 4-3 in the final qualifier match with the Czech Republic to reach the semi-final of the 11th.
In the previous Paralympic cross-country skiing men's long distance (sitting) competition, Zheng Peng won the gold medal for the Chinese sports delegation. Yang Hongqiong won the gold medal in the women's long distance (sitting) competition of Paralympic cross-country skiing on March 5. The gold medal they won again today is the 9th and 10th gold medal won by the Chinese team in this competition, and the second gold medal they have won at the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games.
Today is the fifth matchday of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, and this Winter Paralympic Games has entered the second half of the journey. Six gold medals were produced today in the Paralympic cross-country skiing event, all of which will have to pass through qualifying, semi-finals and finals to produce gold medals.
Zheng Peng qualified first in both the qualifiers and the semi-finals, and in the final, he was again ranked first with a time of 2:42.4. Of the six finalists, four were Chinese, Mao Zhongwu was second in 2:44.9, and two other Chinese players, Liu Zixu and Wang Tao, were fourth and fifth, respectively.
Zheng Peng, 29, was disabled by a lift when he was an apprentice in an auto repair factory in 2011. Life has suddenly changed, but he has not been defeated, and Zheng Peng has realized his value on the road of sports.
Two years later, Zheng Peng applied for a sports school for the disabled in Beijing on the recommendation of his hometown Disabled Persons' Federation and was admitted, and has been exposed to skiing since then. When he first started training, he encountered many difficulties, and Zheng Peng gritted his teeth and persevered.
In 2018, he represented China at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games, finishing fourth in the men's sitting 15 km cross-country skiing event.
In the process of preparing for the Winter Paralympic Games for a long time, Zheng Peng had a difficult period. He said: "I am still glad that I have persevered, and the adjustment of my mentality has helped me a lot." ”
Next, Zheng Peng will also participate in the Men's Mid-Range (Sitting) Competition in The Beijing Winter Paralympic Skiing.
Yang Hongqiong's road to gold is full of twists and turns. In the qualifiers, she ranked third; in the semifinals, she ranked first in the second group, but the 3 minutes and 35 seconds was nearly 9 seconds away from the 3 minutes 26 seconds 2 seconds of the first place in the other group; in the final, Yang Hongqiong played her advantages of good gliding skills and strong endurance, and won the gold again with a time of 3 minutes 18 seconds 2.
Yang Hongqiong is a veteran, originally a wheelchair basketball player, she encountered many difficulties in cross-border ski training: sitting cross-country skiing needs to rely on both hands to maintain body balance, because of the inability to adapt, Yang Hongqiong became one of the most wrestled players in the team.
At last year's National Paralympic Games, Yang Hongqiong played abnormally, and her results were not outstanding. This made her doubt herself for a while, but the "unconvinced" in her heart pulled her back to the field, and finally she bloomed perfectly in this Winter Paralympic Games.
Next, Yang Hongqiong will also participate in the Beijing Winter Paralympic Paralympic Paralympic Cross-Country Skiing Women's Mid-Range (Sitting) Competition, and she will attack her third gold medal.
The Chinese wheelchair curling team made a bad start at the Winter Paralympic Games, losing to Canada and Sweden respectively. Since then, they have gradually regained their form, winning consecutive victories over Estonia, the United States and other teams to win four consecutive round-robin tournaments. On the morning of the 9th, they played against the Slovak team first, and in the first four sets of the game, the Slovak team seized the opportunity to lead 3:2. In the fifth and sixth sets, the Chinese team scored 5 consecutive points by taking advantage of the opponent's mistakes, the Slovak team scored 2 points in the backhand in the seventh set, and the Slovak team had no choice but to concede defeat in the last throw of the eighth set. In the afternoon, the Chinese team and the Norwegian team were in a stalemate, the first four sets of the game to a 2:2 draw, the fifth and sixth sets of both sides each scored 1 point, the seventh game Norway team took advantage of the Chinese team's mistake to score 1 point, the score was rewritten to 4:3. In the eighth inning, the Chinese team controlled the situation on the court and won four points with the last shot of wang Haitao at fourth base, to win Norway 7-4.
Wang Haitao, who made the first contribution to the victory of the Chinese team, said after the game that he was particularly excited after playing the last goal. "Through these years of competition, I have found that I can't think wildly on the key pot, but must take a decisive shot after looking at the point and grasping the strength." Wang Haitao said.
As one of the heroes of the Chinese wheelchair curling team to win the gold medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games, Wang Haitao also showed his championship style and king style at this most critical moment, and his final shot not only successfully bypassed the obstacles to beat the Norwegian team's curling, but also perfectly avoided all the curling in the base camp of the Chinese wheelchair curling team, and he helped the Chinese wheelchair curling team to catch up and win the game for the Chinese team. In the face of the applause from the Norwegian team, Wang Haitao admitted that curling is a gentleman's sport, and we will applaud opponents when they play a good ball.
"The Norwegian team as a whole did not have too many mistakes, it can shoot, it can play, it can hang, and the strength is very well controlled." Yue Qingshuang, coach of the Chinese team, said that after the game, she hugged every member of the team, which was a good exercise for them. 'The opponent didn't give us many chances, and the score was particularly tight to see who could make it to the end."
On the 10th, the Chinese team will face the last two opponents in the round robin - The United Kingdom and Latvia. Yue Qingshuang said that the players' state is better than one, and he hopes that they can continue to stabilize their mentality and play every game well.
The Paralympic Ice Hockey Final Qualification Match between China and the Czech Republic was full of twists and turns, thrilling: in the first set, the Chinese team scored by Wang Zhidong at 6 minutes and 48 seconds, but just over a minute later, the Czech team was equalized by Michal Gale; in the second set of 20 minutes and 29 seconds, Tian Jintao rewrote the score to 2:1; in the third set, 30 minutes and 29 seconds, China's Shen Yifeng expanded the score to 3:1, but it was only more than 2 minutes later, and the Czech team's Václav Hechko scored. After that, at 39 minutes and 01 seconds, the Czech team equalized the score until at 43 minutes and 09 seconds, the Chinese team Wang Zhidong scored another goal, thus ending the game with a score of 4:3.
At 20:05 on the evening of the 11th, the Chinese team will play a semi-final with the United States; another semi-final will be played between Canada and South Korea.
Guangming Daily ( 2022-03-10 09 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily