From January 31st to February 2nd, the 2020 Short Track Speed Skating World Youth Championships will be competed in Bomio, Italy. In the 8 events including men's and women's 500m, 1000m, 1500m and 3000m relays, The Chinese team won 1 gold and 3 bronzes. Among them, Sun Long won the men's 500m bronze medal in the men's 1000m Group A final in three thousandths of a second, and Zhang Tianyi and Li Xuan won the men's and women's 1500m bronze medal. In addition, this year's competition set a total of 4 youth world records.
Sun Long thrilled to win the championship in three thousandths of a second. The Korean men's team won 3 golds.
After the preliminary rounds, preliminaries, quarter-finals, and semi-finals, Sun Long became the only Chinese player to enter the men's 1000m Group A final. He was in the final. Li adopted a trailing tactic and surpassed the first place in the sprint stage of the schedule. Although South Korean player An Hyun Joon grasped the gap in the inner road before Sun Long crossed the line, he failed to complete the lore. Sun Long scored 1 point. A thrilling gold medal of 34 seconds and 108 seconds, only three thousandths of a second ahead of An Xianjun, and the bronze medal was won by Russian player Barbekov with a score of 1:34.647. It is worth mentioning that Barbekov slipped a new men's 1000m youth world record of 1:23m.690 in the preliminaries.
Chinese players Song Jiahua and Zhang Tianyi joined hands in the fourth group of the quarter-finals of the project, ranking third and fourth in the group with 1:27.473 and 1:27.768 respectively, and missed the semifinal round. The
men’s 500m group A final also only had Sun Long, a Chinese player who advanced. He took the lead at the beginning of the schedule, but was affected by a foul by South Korea’s Kim Tae-sung and fell off the track. Although Kim Tae-sung was convicted of a foul, Sun Long In the end, only 1 minute 03 seconds 327 won the bronze medal. The champion and runner-up of this event were won by South Korean player Li Jingmin and Russian player Barbekov, with results of 42 seconds 063 and 42 seconds 171. Although
slipped 40 seconds 331 in the preliminary round to create a new men's 500m youth world record, Zhang Tianyi finally ranked second in the group B final with a time of 42.639; another Chinese player Li Kongchao ranked first in the semi-final of the event. The group ranked fifth, so stop there.
As the only Chinese player to enter the men's 1500m Group A final, Zhang Tianyi fought fiercely with three Korean players, but ended up in fourth place. Because Li Jingmin was convicted of a foul, Zhang Tianyi was promoted to third place to win bronze , The score was 2:31.671. South Korean players Kim Tae-sung and An Xianjun won gold and silver with 2:31.495 and 2:31.584 respectively.
Chinese player Song Jiahua ranked second in the men's 1500m Group B final with a time of 2:33.558, while Sun Long ranked fifth in the third group of the semi-finals of the event, and missed the chance to continue.
A team composed of Sun Long, Zhang Tianyi, Song Jiahua, and Li Kongchao made a mistake in the second group of the men’s 3000m relay quarter-finals. They finished in fourth place and were eliminated ahead of time. The results of the Russian and Japanese teams were 3:55.494, 3:55.982, and 4:12.437. The Korean team's championship results set a new youth world record.
South Korea and the Netherlands divided the women’s gold medal, and Li Xuan won the bronze medal in the 1500 meters.
failed to make the World Youth Championship due to Zhang Chutong due to visa factors, which greatly reduced the competitiveness of the Chinese women’s team. In the final of the women’s 1500 meters group A, the only one Promoted Chinese player Li Xuan competed with three South Korean players. In the case of the Korean team’s failure to cooperate well in tactics, Li Xuan, who was waiting to work hard, won the bronze medal with 2:38.616. This is also the case. The only medal of the Chinese women's team in the competition. South Korea’s Kim Keun-hee and Canada’s Brunel won the championship and runner-up in 2:38.292 and 2:38.507 respectively. Chinese players Hao Weiying and Wang Yichao both stopped in the first round of the women's 1500 meters. The champion, runner-up and third place in the women's 500 meters of
belonged to Wierzepol from the Netherlands, Brunel from Canada, and Stoddard from the United States. The results were 43 seconds 924, 44 seconds 383 and 44 seconds 760. Chinese player Li Xuan ranked fourth in the Group B final with a time of 45.641. Wang Yichao and Hao Weiying stopped in the preliminaries and quarter-finals of the event.
South Korea's Jin Jili, American's Stoddard, Russia's MattweiThe baby won the women's 1000 meters gold, silver and bronze medals with 1:32.069, 1:32.924, and 1:33.292 respectively. Chinese players Wang Yichao, Hao Weiying, and Li Xuan stopped the preliminary rounds, preliminary rounds, and quarter-finals of the project respectively.
The Chinese team failed to form a team to participate in the women’s 3000m relay. In the event that the South Korean team retired, the Netherlands, Russia and Italy won the top three with a score of 4:12.019, 4:13:288,4. At 21.298 minutes, the Dutch team's championship result set a new world record for the World Youth Championship.
So far, the 2020 Short Track Speed Skating World Youth Championships have all come to an end. The South Korean team became the biggest winner with 5 golds. The Dutch and Chinese teams won 2 and 1 gold respectively, ranking second and third in the gold medal list.
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