As one of the important test activities of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the 2021 Speed Skating China Open kicked off yesterday at the National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon", and the first day of the competition was staged for men and women in 500 meters and men's 5000 meters and women's 3000 meters, and Chinese athletes finally won two second places in two long-distance events.
The three-day competition consisted of 12 sub-events, with athletes from three teams: China, South Korea and the Netherlands. A total of four races were staged on the first race day, with four runners in the women's 3000m race, including the Netherlands' Kleiveld with a time of 4 minutes 25.32 seconds, China's Yang Binyu was runner-up in 4 minutes 25.62 seconds, and South Korea's Park Chae-won was third. Kleinveld became the first athlete to win an international event in the "Ice Ribbon". In the men's 5,000m, China's Ma Xingguang finished second with 6 minutes 49.98 seconds, with the first place going to South Korea's Jeong Leung-hoon.
In addition, in the men's and women's 500 meters competition, South Korea's Kim Joon-ho and The Netherlands' Greyviert respectively won the championship.
The Construction of the National Speed Skating Hall began in 2016, was successfully completed in December last year, and the first ice making was successfully implemented in January this year. The National Speed Skating Hall has a 400-meter slide with 12,000 spectator seats. The Speed Skating China Open is the first beijing Winter Olympics test event this year and the first international event ushered in by the National Speed Skating Hall.
Source: Tonight's newspaper