The picture shows Ning Zhongyan in the game.
China News Service Client, Beijing, February 20th (Liu Xingchen) On February 19th, the finals of the Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating men's collective starting event ended, and Ning Zhongyan won the 12th place, and he ended the Winter Olympics. All games.
After the game, the Heilongjiang guy admitted frankly that he hadn't gone home for the Chinese New Year for four years.
After the Winter Olympics, he wanted to go home to get his driver's license and relax with his family.
On February 18, in the men's 1000m speed skating final at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Ning Zhongyan, who played in the penultimate group, ranked fifth with a time of 1:08.60.
He is only one step away from the podium.
Then switch back to February 8, the Beijing Winter Olympics, the men's 1500-meter speed skating competition.
In the face of a lot of strong players, Ning Zhongyan finally ranked 7th.
The men's 1000m and 1500m speed skating are not the dominant events of the Chinese team.
At the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Chinese players ranked around 30 in both events.
It was not until Ning Zhongyan came to the fore that the Chinese team quickly narrowed the gap with the world level in these two aspects.
This 22-year-old boy is already good enough.
In the 4 World Cup competitions this season, Ning Zhongyan won 3 golds and 2 silvers. He has become a new generation leader of Chinese speed skating.
From his debut to rewriting the history of ice and snow sports in China, Ning Zhongyan has walked very fast and steadily.
Heilongjiang
Year 1999
On November 3, 1999, Ning Zhongyan was born in Ning'an City, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. He is a young man from Heping Village, Shiyan Town.
Started learning to skate at age 11
When Ning Zhongyan was a child, his teacher Geng Yuhua started his speed skating career by pouring ice inadvertently.
Ning Zhongyan, who started skating at the age of 11, showed great talent.
At the age of 18, he was selected for the Chinese speed skating team.
Image source: Ning Zhongyan Weibo.
budding
2017
This year, Ning Zhongyan ushered in the Bole in his life, the world champion coach Wang Xiuli.
His advantages in the mid-range are thoroughly stimulated.
Thanks to the accumulation of previous long-distance training, after switching from long-distance to middle-distance, Ning Zhongyan's ability to maintain speed has become his advantage.
Coupled with hard training day after day, he improved rapidly.
2018
After entering the national speed skating team, Ning Zhongyan's main event is long distance.
"The grades were not good, and I thought about giving up." Ning Zhongyan's early days were not all smooth sailing.
Later, he became the sparring partner of Zhang Hong, the Olympic champion of speed skating at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
When he saw that Zhang Hong insisted on training and competition under any circumstances, Ning Zhongyan was also determined to make a breakthrough.
Image source: Ning Zhongyan Weibo.
prove yourself
2019
For Ning Zhongyan, this is a very important year.
After years of accumulation, he finally ushered in the outbreak.
Using Wang Xiuli's words to describe it, Ning Zhongyan's achievement is inevitable.
"Ning Zhongyan is a long-distance transfer, so he has a good ability to maintain speed. The most important thing is that he is willing to use his brain in training competitions, is very smart, and improves quickly."
January 2019
At the National Speed Skating Championships, Ning Zhongyan won the men's sprint pursuit championship with a time of 1:23.77.
Image source: Ning Zhongyan Weibo.
November 2019
In the speed skating World Cup in Minsk, Belarus, in the men's speed skating 1000m final, Ning Zhongyan won the runner-up with a time of 1:09.220, achieving a historic breakthrough for Chinese men's athletes in this event in recent decades.
December 2019
In the 2019-20 Speed Skating World Cup Nur-Sultan men's 1500m race, Ning Zhongyan and PyeongChang Winter Olympic champion Ness were in the same group.
In the last corner of the last lap, Ning Zhongyan reversed his opponent and won the championship with a time of 1:44.918, breaking the track record at the same time. It was the first men's 1500m gold medal won by the Chinese speed skating team on the World Cup stage.
The Dutchman Ness bluntly said after the game that Ning Zhongyan's overtaking process was like a "rocket".
The excellent ability to maintain speed in the back-end has gradually become the killer of Ning Zhongyan in the final match.
That season, Ning Zhongyan won 1 gold and 4 silvers in the Speed Skating World Cup, and the total World Cup points were second only to the Dutchman Ness.
In the men's middle distance speed skating event, China's top world champion is still Luo Zhihuan.
Wang Xiuli commented on Ning Zhongyan, "After more than 50 years, Luo Lao finally has a successor."
Data map: Ning Zhongyan provided by the Sports Bureau of Heilongjiang Province
March 2020
In the finals of the Speed Skating World Cup, Ning Zhongyan won the fifth place in the men's 1500m with a time of 1:45.693.
Ning Zhongyan ranked second in the men's 1500m total points in the World Cup that season.
This is the best result of a Chinese male player in the overall ranking of this event in the World Cup.
2020-2021
Due to the epidemic, Ning Zhongyan and the members of the national speed skating training team have not participated in international competitions for more than a year.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, the team conducted a long-term closed training camp.
Facing unknown challenges, Ning Zhongyan, who was only 20 years old at the time, kept adjusting his mentality and competitive state while training.
It is this self-disciplined personality that has created his subsequent success.
Image source: Ning Zhongyan Weibo.
best season
November 2021
Ning Zhongyan won the men's 1,500m runner-up in the Speed Skating World Cup Poland with a time of 1:46.191.
Due to the epidemic, Ning Zhongyan has not travelled abroad for more than a year.
Facing the Beijing Winter Olympics, he said that he would improve his skills and physical fitness during the sprint preparation stage.
November 2021
In the Speed Skating World Cup in Stavanger, Norway, the Chinese team composed of Ning Zhongyan, Wang Haotian and Lian Ziwen won the men's team racing championship with a score of 1:20.122.
In the men's 1500m final, Ning Zhongyan slid 1:45.167 to win the championship.
From 1000 meters to 1500 meters, Ningzhongyan has excellent performance.
On January 29, Chinese speed skating team members Ning Zhongyan, Lian Ziwen, Xu Fu and Wang Haotian (from right to left) train at the "Ice Ribbon" at the National Speed Skating Stadium.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Xu
February 8, 2022
Ning Zhongyan finished seventh in the men's 1500m speed skating final at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
He made the history of Chinese men's speed skating.
In this project, the best result of the Chinese team in the previous Winter Olympics was the 18th place in 1992, created by Liu Yanfei.
Ning Zhongyan, who stood on the stage of the Winter Olympics for the first time, made Chinese men's speed skaters rank among the top 8 of the event for the first time.
After the game, Ning Zhongyan admitted that he did not perform at a normal level due to the excessive pressure. He was not convinced by the result and would continue to adjust his mental state.
The picture shows Ning Zhongyan in the game.
At the age of 22, Ning Zhongyan galloped past the arena, stunning everyone.
The hard training gave him the ability to compete with the world's best players.
There are endless possibilities for him in the future.
The unyielding young man from Heilongjiang has been writing a new history of Chinese men's speed skating.
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