Hohhot, Xinhua News Agency, January 11 (Reporter Wang Chunyan, Wei Jingyu) On the 11th, the speed skating (open group) and short track speed skating (youth group) competitions of the 14th National Winter Games kicked off at the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center in Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Speed skating stars Yin Qi, Li Qishi and Ning Zhongyan won two medals on the first day of competition, and Inner Mongolia's Han Mei won a silver medal.
In the speed skating women's group A 1000m final, the veteran Yin Qi representing Xinjiang and the famous Li Qishi of the Jilin team were in a group, and Yin Qi, who started from the inner road, won the championship with a time of 1:15.17. Han Mei appeared in the last group, and she crossed the finish line ahead of Tian Ruining in the same group with the cheers of the audience, and won the silver medal with a time of 1:15.30. The bronze medal was won by Li Qishi with a time of 1:15.36.
In the men's Group A 1000m final, Ning Zhongyan, who performed well this season, won a gold medal for the Heilongjiang team with a time of 1:08.51, Wang Haotian of the Ningxia team won the silver medal in 1:08.83, and Lian Ziwen, who started in the same group as Ning Zhongyan, won a bronze medal for the Beijing team.
In the women's mass start final, Li Qishi won the championship, Yin Qi won the silver medal, and the bronze medal was won by Li Yunyuan of the Inner Mongolia team. In the men's mass start final, Shen Hanyang of the Liaoning team won the gold medal, Yerhanati Ayitinama of the Xinjiang team won the silver medal, and the bronze medal belonged to Ning Zhongyan.
On the first day of the competition, he won 1 gold and 1 bronze, Ning Zhongyan said that he had made a good start, and there was still room for improvement in the future, and he wanted to raise his physical fitness again, and the goal was to "bring more medals back to his hometown".
Yin Qi said after the competition: "The level of the top three is very close, which shows that China's speed skating as a whole has improved, we are all part of the Chinese speed skating pyramid, and we hope that through our step-by-step efforts, China's speed skating as a whole will be lifted to the position of the world (high level)." ”
On the same day, the list of participants for the mixed doubles final of curling (youth group) was also produced, and the top two teams in the round-robin team, Sichuan team and Heilongjiang team, met in the final. In the mixed doubles competition in which 8 teams participated, 4 teams from Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Guizhou advanced to the semifinals after a single round-robin.
The short track speed skating (youth category) competition also started on the 11th, with a number of preliminaries and quarterfinals on the same day. Nine gold medals will be awarded in short track speed skating (youth), and gold medals in the men's and women's 1500m and mixed team relay events will be decided on the 12th. (ENDS).