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Almaty Station Short Track Speed Skating World Cup: Chinese men’s and women’s relay teams advance to semi-finals
The fourth leg of the 2022-2023 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup will start on the 16th in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Chinese men’s and women’s relay teams both made it through the first round and entered the semi-finals.
The first round of competitions of several projects was held that day. In the quarterfinals of the men’s 5,000m relay, the Chinese team consisting of Li Kongchao, Li Kun, Li Wenlong and Song Jiahua slipped to 6:51.250, finishing second in the group after the Hungarian team and entered the semifinals. In the semifinals, the Chinese team will compete against Japan, South Korea and Hungary.
The Chinese women’s team also finished second in the relay group with a time of 4:16.308 and entered the semifinals of the women’s 3,000-meter relay. In the quarterfinals of the 2000-meter medley relay, the Chinese team was ruled out for a foul.
There are two 500m races at this station. In the first preliminaries of the men’s 500-meter race, the Chinese team’s Zhong Yuchen and Li Kun slipped by 41 seconds 912 and 42 seconds 482 respectively, finishing second in their respective groups and entering the quarter-finals. In the second round of the 500-meter race, Li Kun successfully advanced to the front of the group with 41.555 seconds, Zhong Yuchen and Li Wenlong also entered the next round as runners-up in the group. Li Wenlong also lost 2 minutes 18 seconds 625 in the quarterfinals of the 1500 meters, finishing first in the group. Li Kongchao finished as runners-up in the group and made it to the quarterfinals of the 1000m.
As for the women, in the preliminary round of the first 500m race, the three Chinese players Zhang Chutong, Wang Ye and Wang Xinran all advanced to the next round. Wang Xinran and his teammate Gong Li also successfully broke through in the preliminaries of the second 500m race. In the 1,000-meter preliminaries and 1,500-meter quarter-finals, the Chinese team players also advanced.
