Nanning, February 23 (Huang Lingyan) According to information provided by the Guangxi Sports Bureau, on February 23 in Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia, the "14th Winter" snowboard open group women's big air final, Guangxi team athlete Gan Jiajia won the crown. This is Guangxi's first gold medal in the history of the National Winter Games.
The picture shows the Guangxi snowboarding team. Photo courtesy of Guangxi Sports Bureau.
It is reported that for the first time, provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government organized groups to participate in the "14th Winter" to achieve the "National Winter Games" in the true sense. Guangxi, which is geographically located on the "Tropic of Cancer", organized a delegation to participate in the National Winter Games for the first time, with a total of 29 athletes participating in nine events, including skeleton, alpine skiing, figure skating, freestyle skiing big air and slopestyle.
The picture shows the training scene of freestyle skiers in Guangxi. Photo courtesy of Guangxi Sports Bureau.
Up to now, the Guangxi delegation has won 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals in this Winter Games. Previously, on February 20, in the men's slalom final of the freestyle skiing open group, Guangxi athlete Qiu Xiyang stood on the podium for the third place. It took him six years to go from seeing snow for the first time to now being the third in the country.
In addition, Zhang Xinhao, an athlete jointly trained by Guangxi and Hebei, won the silver medal in the snowboard halfpipe youth competition. Zhang Jing won the third place in the skeleton mixed team.
In recent years, Guangxi has promoted the development of mass and youth ice and snow sports according to local conditions, and cultivated and selected winter athletes through cross-border and cross-season material selection and exchanges, and a number of outstanding young athletes have emerged, who have achieved excellent results in domestic and foreign competitions in snowboarding, freestyle skiing and figure skating. (ENDS).
*: China News Network.