On November 5th, Beijing time, the second stop of the 2022-2023 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Salt Lake City, USA ended the competition for the first match day.
In the absence of Lin Xiaoxun due to injury, the young athletes of the Chinese team performed well overall. In the men's 1500m quarter-finals, Liu Guanyi was third in the first group and Li Wenlong was the first in the sixth group. The two directly advanced to the semi-finals.
Both the women's 3000m and men's 5000m relays advanced to the semi-finals with first place in the group.
This week, the Chinese short track team played in Salt Lake City and made a fine-tuning of the lineup. The men's team Wang Qizhi replaced Lin Xiaoxun who was injured last week, and the women's team Cai Shenyi replaced Gongli.
There are two 500-meter competitions in this competition. Li Kongchao and Zhong Yuchen ranked second in the group in the first qualifying round of the men's 500-meter.
In the first preliminaries of the men's 500m, Zhong Yuchen entered the quarter-finals in second place, and Li Kongchao entered the resurrection in fourth place.
In the first qualifying round of the women's 500 meters, Zhang Chutong and Wang Xinran both ranked second in the group, Wang Ye ranked third in the group, and the three Chinese players entered the quarter-finals hand in hand.
For the second time in the women's 500 meters, Wang Ye ranked third in the group and entered the quarter-finals. Cai Shenyi and Wang Xinran both entered the resurrection competition as fourth in the group.
In the men's 1000m preliminaries, the Chinese team sent Li Wenlong and Wang Qizhi to fight. Li Wenlong fouled in the ninth group, and Wang Qizhi entered the resurrection match fifth in the sixth group.
In the women's 1000m preliminaries, Zhang Chutong advanced second in the group, and Jia Huiling entered the resurrection fourth in the group.
Dutch star Schulting in the fifth group set a new World Cup record and a world record with a time of 1:25.958.
In the men's 1500m quarter-finals, Li Wenlong ranked first in the group with a time of 2:14.492 and entered the semi-finals.
In the women's 1500m quarter-finals, Jia Huiling ranked third in the group with a score of 2:31.513 and entered the semifinals directly; Cai Shenyi ranked fourth in the group and entered the resurrection.
In the quarter-finals of the men's and women's mixed 2000-meter relay, the Chinese team slipped out of 2:38.697, ranking second in the group and advancing to the semi-finals.
In the quarter-finals of the men's 5000m relay, the Chinese team played by Li Kongchao, Li Wenlong, Liu Guanyi and Zhong Yuchen ranked first in the group with a score of 6:45.51, and successfully entered the semi-finals.
In the quarter-finals of the women's 3000m relay, the Chinese team sent Jia Huiling, Wang Xinran, Wang Ye and Zhang Chutong to play. They ranked first in the group with a score of 4:05.148 and advanced to the semifinals.
According to the schedule, on the second match day, the short track speed skating World Cup Salt Lake City Station will decide five champions in the men's and women's 500m first, men's and women's 1,500m and men's and women's mixed 2,000m relays, and the men's 5,000m and women's 3,000m relays will be in the semi-finals. contest.
Text / reporter Zhou Xueshuai
Beijing Youth Daily