Wu leads Chinese charge at World Cup
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WU Dajing shined at the ISU Short Track Speedskating World Cup in Shanghai, claiming two gold medals before helping the Chinese men’s team clinch gold in the 5,000 meters relay.
The 3-day Shanghai event, which was held at Pudong’s Oriental Sports Center and ended last night, was the third stop of the six-leg World Cup this season. China sent out a relatively young team, though the men’s team had the 1,500m world championships winner Han Tianyu and 500m runner-up Wu in its squad.
ISU had scheduled two rounds of 500m competitions in both men and women categories. An in-form Wu won on both Saturday and Sunday finals to take home two gold medals for the hosts. He then partnered Han Tianyu, Xu Hongzhi and Ren Ziwei in yesterday’s 5,000m relay final, edging the Netherlands, South Korea and Hungary to claim the third gold medal for China.
But China failed to win medals in other categories but national head coach Li Yan was pleased with the performance of the skaters. “They stayed cool and showed they had the capabilities to compete against world’s top level opponents,” said Li, who said last week that Chinese skaters were taking their own time to find form.
The next major event will be the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Japan in February.
Other winners yesterday were Britain’s Christie Elise (ladies 500m), Hungary’s Liu Shaoang (men’s 1,000m), South Korea’s Choi Min-jeong (ladies 1,000m) and team South Korea (ladies 3,000m relay).
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