Wu Dajing
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Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Jiamusi,Heilongjiang,China | 24 July 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Short track speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 500 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Jilin Province | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Li Yan,Kim Sun-tae,Viktor An (Ahn Hyun-soo) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personalbest(s) | 500m: 39.505WR(2018) 1000m: 1:23.380 (2017) 1500m: 2:12.926 (2016) 3000m: 4:51.835 (2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Chinese | VõĐạiTĩnh | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Wu Dajing(born 24 July 1994) is a Chineseshort track speed skater.[1]He is a gold medalist in theMen's 500 metresat the2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.He won a gold medal in the Men's 500m at the2014 ISU World Championshipsin Montreal, Canada.
He won China's only gold medal at the2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.He won theMen's 500 metres,setting an Olympic record (heat) and two world records (quarterfinal and final) while leading wire-to-wire in all three contests en route to capturing the gold.[2]He became only the second person in history to have skated the discipline in under 40 seconds, after AmericanJ. R. Celskiwho managed the feat in 2012 in Calgary at a much higher elevation where the reduced air density tends to give the skater an advantage due to lowered air resistance. Wu also won a silver medal with his teammates in themen's 5000m team relay.[citation needed]
Wu Dajing was China's flag bearer during theparade of nationsat the opening ceremony of the2017 Asian Winter Games.[3]
In 2020, Wu Dajing made a special appearance in the Chinese drama TV seriesSkate into Love,[citation needed]and was later cast asYang Gensiin the 2023 filmThe Volunteers: To the War.
International competition podiums
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Wu Dajing".sochi2014.com.Archived fromthe originalon 19 July 2014.Retrieved14 February2014.
- ^"Wu Dajing dominates the field in the 500m win".nbcolympics.com. 22 February 2018. Archived fromthe originalon 24 February 2018.Retrieved23 February2018.
- ^"Asian Winter Games opens, China wins 2 medals".www.english.cri.cn/.China Radio International.19 February 2017. Archived fromthe originalon 20 February 2017.Retrieved19 February2017.
External links
[edit]- Wu Dajingat theInternational Skating Union
- Wu DajingatOlympics at Sports-Reference.com(archived)
- Wu Dajing's profileArchived19 July 2014 at theWayback Machine,fromhttp://www.sochi2014.comArchived11 April 2013 atarchive.today;retrieved 2014-02-14.
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Chinese male short track speed skaters
- Olympic short track speed skaters for China
- Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
- Olympic gold medalists for China
- Olympic silver medalists for China
- Olympic bronze medalists for China
- Short track speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Short track speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Short track speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in short track speed skating
- Asian Games gold medalists for China
- Asian Games silver medalists for China
- Short track speed skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
- Medalists at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
- World Short Track Speed Skating Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Heilongjiang
- People from Jiamusi
- 21st-century Chinese sportspeople