Chinanews.com, March 2. According to the China Mountaineering Association, on March 1 local time, on the second day of the 2023 International Ski Mountaineering Federation World Championships, young player Cedan Yuzhen won the U18 women's championship.
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The starting point of this competition is set at an altitude of 2040 meters, and the finishing point is at an altitude of 2560 meters. Athletes need to wear snowboards to climb. The competition distance is 3.2 kilometers, and the cumulative climb reaches 520 meters.
This year's World Championships has only one vertical competition route, and the Chinese team sent 13 players to participate in the vertical competition of each group.
After fierce competition, in the U18 women's group, the young Chinese athlete and Italian Youth World Cup champion Tse Dan Yuzhen won the vertical competition of the World Ski Mountaineering Championships for the Chinese team with a huge advantage of 31 minutes and 19 seconds, 59 seconds ahead of the second place. This is also the second gold medal won by the Chinese team in this World Championships.
In the U18 men's group, young teenagers Brewer and Bi Yuxin, who participated in the World Championships for the first time, finished sixth and eighth in the group with a time of 26 minutes 59 seconds and 27 minutes 27 seconds respectively.
In the U20 women's group, Suolang Quzhen won the fifth place in the group with a time of 30 minutes and 40 seconds. Yuzhen Lamu, who previously won the first gold medal for the Chinese team in the short distance event, won the fifth place with a time of 31 minutes and 10 seconds. The sixth place in the group, the young player Mao Shengmei won the seventh place with a time of 31 minutes and 54 seconds.