The short track speed skating World Cup Shanghai station entered the last competition day on the 8th. Fan Kexin, the runner-up of the Sochi Winter Olympics, won the second championship of the women’s 500 m. Han Tianyu, who picked silver the day before, won the men’s 1000 m gold medal.
Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, December 8th (Reporter Wei Yuyu, Liu Yang) short track speed skating World Cup Shanghai station entered the last competition day on the 8th. Fan Kexin, the runner-up of the Sochi Winter Olympics, won the second championship of the women’s 500 m, han Tianyu, who picked silver one day ago, won the men’s 1000-meter gold medal. Qu Chunyu won the women’s 500-meter bronze medal. Finally, the Chinese team ended the competition with 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze.
The Chinese team did not have a gold medal in the 7th competition. Fan Kexin withstood the pressure and won a gold medal for China in the first final on the 8th. In the second competition of women’s 500 meters, Fan Kexin made efforts in the future and chased him to the second place. In the last lap, he sprinted to the leading position together with Polish player Mariz WASCA. When entering the last bend, Polish player Mariz WASCA fell down. Fan Kexin won the championship with 42 seconds 714, Dutch fan kokehoff won the silver medal with 42 seconds 902, and another Chinese player Qu Chunyu won the bronze medal with a score of 43seconds 015.
“Excited, happy!” Fan Kexin, who once broke the world record of this project, said after the game: “This is the first time I have won a single gold medal in the World Cup in four years. This gold medal has given me confidence, it also gives the team confidence.”
In the men’s 1000 m final that followed, Han Tianyu won another gold for the Chinese team. Han Tianyu resisted the impact of the Hungarian Olympic champion Liu Shaoang and the South Korean Park Zhiyuan, who ranked first in the world in the project, and won the championship with a score of 1 minute 28 seconds 351. Liu Shaoang won the silver medal at 1 minute 28 seconds 369, the bronze medal was captured by park Zhiyuan with a score of 1 minute 28 seconds.
Han Tianyu, the runner-up of the Sochi Winter Olympics, was suspended due to injury last season. After a strong comeback this season, his performance climbed steadily. This site harvested 1 gold and 1 silver in the World Cup. “Today’s final was more proactive.” Han Tianyu said in an interview after the game: “I felt that Park Zhiyuan had to do a transcendence in the outside world. I accelerated the speed ahead of time when I turned around. Liu Shaoang tried to do internal transcendence in the inner circle, which made me block back.”
The Olympic champion Wu Dajing fell down in the first 500-meter final of the previous day. He was injured in the second 500-meter competition that day, but he fell out of the final in the quarter-finals. Wang Meng, head of the coach team of the national team of speed skating and short track speed skating, said after the game that Wu Dajing could play, and everyone should still give affirmation. Now he has gone to the hospital for further examination.
The champion of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the famous Dutch general shulting took the champion of women’s 1000 m race lightly, at 1 minute 29 seconds 089; The champion of the second men’s 500 m race was won by Hungarian Liu Shaolin, at 40 seconds 722, this is the second 500-meter gold medal he won in the World Cup on this site; The women’s 3000-meter relay champion was won by Canada; The Russian team won the men’s 5000-meter relay champion.
The next short track speed skating World Cup will be held in Dresden, Germany on February 7, 202020.