Last night, the "Meet in Beijing" 2021-2022 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup China Station competition ended in the first body, and the Chinese short track speed skating team carrying the responsibility of winning gold in the Winter Olympics ended with 2 gold and 1 bronze.
Photo by Liu Ping, reporter of this newspaper
The relay project is very strong
The Chinese short track speed skating team's gold rush at next year's Beijing Winter Olympics will focus on the relay event, and the two relay gold medals won in China this time prove that our strength in the relay event is indeed very strong.
China, the Netherlands, South Korea and Italy reached the men's and women's 2000m mixed relay finals. The Chinese team is composed of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting, always occupying the leading position in the game, the team members cooperate tacitly, whenever the opponent tries to surpass, the Chinese team can always control the line, suppress the rhythm, and grasp the initiative. The Chinese team did not panic in the final sprint, and finally won the gold medal in the 2000-meter mixed relay, and the Dutch team and the South Korean team won silver and bronze medals.
China, the Netherlands, Italy and South Korea advanced to the women's 3000m relay final, the Chinese team was composed of Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting, Qu Chunyu, Guo Yihan, the last stick Zhang Yuting achieved a counterattack, occupied the first position, before the collision, although the Dutch athletes knocked down Zhang Yuting, she was the first to pass the finish line and won the gold medal in this project, and the Dutch team and the South Korean team won silver and bronze medals. Fan Kexin said after the game: "Since we have not participated in such a high-level competition for a long time, we were a little nervous, but after the game started, our form came out. ”
The Chinese men's team had no results in the final of the 5,000-meter relay due to being judged to be fouled, but the Chinese men's team had the ability to impact medals and even gold medals at the Winter Olympics.
Individual strength is insufficient
Because this test match is also the qualification tournament for next year's Winter Olympics, it has attracted all the masters in the world, and the overall situation of China's short track speed skating can be seen from the competition: the overall strength of the Chinese women's team is weak, and there is no advantage in individual sports.
Yesterday in the women's 1000 meters, the Netherlands' Shultin won the gold medal, South Korea's Kim Ji-woo and the United States' Santos won the silver and bronze medals, and none of the Chinese players advanced to the final. In addition, no Chinese team advanced to the men's 1000m semifinals, and South Korea's Huang Daxian won the gold medal. In the men's 1500m race, Russia's Elistratov won gold, Kazakhstan's Galyakmetov and China's Ankai won silver and bronze medals. In the women's 1500m, South Korea's Lee Woo-bin won the gold medal, Canada's Sarau and the United States Santos won silver and bronze medals respectively, and China's Zhang Yuting ranked fourth. These results show that the Chinese women's team's individual project strength is insufficient, and the whole team has no advantage in the middle and long distance projects.
In fact, in the individual event, at present, only Wu Dajing has a certain advantage in the men's 500 meters single event, but unfortunately, in the final, he was sent off for a snatching foul, and finally The Hungarian star Liu Shaolin won the gold, and the Hungarian player Cruigor and the Kazakhstani player Nichsakha won the silver and bronze medals. In the women's 500m, China's Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting and Qu Chunyu did not advance to the final, Poland's Mariszewskiska won the first place, Italy's Fontana and South Korea's Choi Minjing won silver and bronze medals respectively. Those who know the situation of short track speed skating in China know that in the past, the women's 500 meters was one of the strong points of the Chinese team, but now we have no scenery.
How to qualify for the Winter Olympics
It is understood that this season's short track speed skating has a World Cup series, but some World Cup sub-stations are scheduled to be held after next year's Beijing Winter Olympics, so only the four sub-stations before the Beijing Winter Olympics are listed as qualifiers for the Winter Olympics, which are Beijing Station in China from October 21 to 24, Nagoya Station in Japan from October 28 to 31, Debrecen Station in Hungary from November 18 to 21, and Dordrecht Station in the Netherlands from November 25 to 28.
According to Lan Li, executive deputy director of the Capital Gymnasium venue group team, the beijing Winter Olympics short track speed skating qualification is only the top 32 in each individual event of the World Cup sub-station, and each player takes the best result of 3 of the 4 races. There are several players in the top 32 of each individual event, and there are several Winter Olympic places in the Winter Olympics in this country or region, but the maximum number of places cannot exceed 3, including relay events, so there will not be more than 5 athletes participating in each team's Winter Olympics. From this situation analysis, the Chinese short track speed skating team has the overall strength to win the winter Olympic quota, but it still faces various challenges if it wants to achieve satisfactory results at the Beijing Winter Olympics next February.
Source Beijing Evening News
Reporter Kong Ning Li Li
Process Editor Yan Shengmiao