The 2023-2024 FILAKKIDS National Alpine Skiing Junior Championship ended on December 12 at Vanke Songhua Lake Resort in Jilin Province. The competition is sponsored by the China Ski Association of the Winter Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, undertaken by the All-China Youth Sports Federation, and co-organized by the Jilin Sports Bureau, Vanke Songhua Lake Resort and Atomic brand, the highest-level youth event of the national alpine skiing project, the event attracted 52 teams from all provinces and cities across the country to participate, and the number of participants increased by nearly 60% compared with the previous season.
This year's competition is different from the past, and the event presents three highlights: first, this event adopts the latest competition rules of the FIS approved by the Winter Sports Management Center to standardize the participation rules;The second is to adopt standard equipment that meets the requirements of the FIS competition to make the competition equipment professionalThird, the participating teams include professional teams, amateur sports teams, school teams, and club teams, so that the participating teams are diversified.
The competition has two competitions of slalom and giant slalom, which are divided into 6 groups: youth group and juvenile group A and group B, male and female, of which the youth group is 15-18 years old, the youth group A is 12-14 years old, and the junior group B is 8-11 years old. After a day of fierce competition, Tang Shiyang and Liu Yongqian won the men's and women's championships in the youth groupHe Jianrui and Zhang Yunhan won the men's and women's championships in the junior group A giant slalom respectivelyZhang Yunhan and Wang Yibing won the men's and women's championships in the junior group B giant slalom respectively.
As the co-organizer of this event, Songhua Lake Resort has carefully built 37 high-quality ski trails with a total length of 41 kilometers, 4 ski slopes certified by the International Ski Federation, 6 imported high-speed cable cars, and 8 magic carpets, with an hourly capacity of 22,000 people and a ski area of 190 hectares, which can meet the needs of 10,000 skiers at the same time. Because of the superior ski track conditions, complete and comprehensive, many national, provincial and municipal training teams, as well as foreign professional training teams such as Japan and South Korea, have settled their training bases in Songhua Lake, which undertakes nearly 30 training teams with more than 30,000 training support tasks every year.
In addition to the training guarantee of the professional team, with the support of the provincial and municipal sports bureaus, Jilin primary and secondary school students' special snow classes have become one of the most anticipated outdoor sports in the snow season of young people in Jilin Province. More than 30 international and national large-scale events such as the National Volkswagen Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom Series, complete facilities and professional services, have been well received by the organizers and participating athletes.
Author: Jilin **Quan**Reporter Zhang Zheng.