China News Service Hulunbuir, January 1 (Xinhua) -- The speed skating open group competition of the 14th National Winter Games ended on the 14th at the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Ice Sports Training Center in Hulunbuir City, with a total of 4 gold medals decided in four competition days.
A total of 4 gold medals were awarded on the last day of competition. Wu Yu of the Liaoning team broke the national record in the men's 10000,5000m final and won the championship. Inner Mongolia player Han Mei won gold in the women's <>m and was crowned the "triple crown" of this competition. The Liaoning team and the Tianjin team won the men's and women's team pursuit championships respectively.
The gold medalist in the men's 10000,13m is Wu Yu, the national record holder in this event and a player from the Liaoning team. In the final, he won the championship with a time of 16:51.13, breaking his personal national record set last season (19:20.<>), and his teammates Shen Hanyang and Wang Shuaihan won the second and third places respectively. Wu Yu said that his previous national record was already last season's result, and he had expectations of breaking the record before this competition, and "the whole skating process was also perfect".
In the women's 5000m final, Han Mei of the Inner Mongolia team won the championship with a time of 7:12.28 and won the third gold medal in this competition. Yang Binyu of Tianjin and Huang Yulin of Hebei won the silver and bronze medals respectively. In previous competitions, Han Mei had won gold medals in the 1500m, 3000m and 1000m. After the game, Han Mei admitted that the "Fourteenth Winter" national competition will definitely put pressure on her, but she always hopes to repay those who care about her with excellent results.
In the men's team pursuit event, the Liaoning team led by Wu Yu played even better, beating the Heilongjiang team led by Ning Zhongyan to win the championship. In the final, the Heilongjiang team once maintained the lead, but when entering the final lap, the Liaoning team accelerated to achieve a rebound. With this victory, Wu Yu also became the male athlete with the most gold medals (3) in the speed skating open group of this Winter Games.
In the women's team pursuit, the Tianjin team beat the Jilin team to win the championship. In the final, the Tianjin team started explosively and maintained the lead throughout the whole process, and finally won the gold medal with a huge advantage of 4.82 seconds ahead of the Jilin team, which was also the first gold medal won by the Tianjin team in the speed skating open group.
Speed skating is one of the events that will be held in advance of this Winter Games. This year's Winter Games continued the practice of previous editions, including speed skating, curling, ski jumping, Nordic combined and other events, with a total of 2 gold medals awarded by the opening ceremony on February 17. According to the competition plan, most of the gold medals in figure skating, freestyle skiing, snowboarding and other events will be decided after the opening ceremony. (ENDS)