Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 26 (reporter Ding Wenxian, Liu Yang, Yu Sihui) 2022-2023 short track speed skating national training team appeared in Beijing Capital Gymnasium on the 26th. The new national training team was composed of Ren Ziwei, Li Wenlong, zhang Chutong was the leader, and Zhang Jing, the former manager of the Hungarian team, became the head coach.

The national training team includes 17 athletes, including Ren Ziwei, Lin Xiaoxiao, Li Wenlong, Zhong Yuchen, Li kongchao, Song Jiahua Food, Li Kun, Liu Guanyi and Wang Qizhi; female athletes include Zhang Chutong, Wang Yi, Gong Li, LV Xiaotong, Jia Huiling, Xu Aili, Cai Shenyi and Zhang Yan.

The leader Liu Chenyu introduced that the national training team selection Invitational tournament was held on September 23-25. According to the selection criteria, except for the individual gold medal winners of Beijing Winter Olympics, all other national training team members were selected according to the competition results, and 17 people were finally selected to form the national short track speed skating training team in the new season, this is also the first national training team of China Ice and Snow project in the new winter Olympics cycle.

Wu Dajing and Fan Kexin, the champions of the Winter Olympics, were not on the list. Yu Haiyan, deputy director of the Winter Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration, explained that this was because they were still in the period of physical and mental adjustment, and then they could enter the national team through selection.

From the former small team members to the backbone, Li Wenlong, the men’s 1000-meter runner-up in Beijing Winter Olympics, said he should take the lead and help tormented teammate more. “They are all young and just came up, some have not even been compared with the World competition. My experience in competition and training in recent years have to be taught to them”.

There are many new names and young faces in the training team. Zhang Jing introduced that there are 6 athletes under the age of 19, and many of them are between the ages of 19 and 22. This season, in order to train young athletes, I hope to continuously train their competition ability in international competitions, accumulate experience in the competition. She introduced that the Chinese team will participate in all six World Cup competitions, Four Continents Championships, World Youth Championships, World Championships and other competitions in the new season.

Zhang Jing is the meritorious coach of the Hungarian short track team. She has coached the Hungarian team for many years and led the team to win the first Winter Olympic gold medal in the history of Hungary at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. She admitted that the challenge of being the head coach this time was huge, but “in the past few years, I have seen a lot of room for further improvement in terms of my own technology, training system and physical fitness, and I think there is a lot of space, and I am confident in this aspect”.

In July, the short track speed skating project once set up a national training camp, and Zhang Jing was the general consultant, bringing a refreshing feeling to many athletes. Ren Ziwei’s comment was: “A coach with good communication and passion. Some of the training she brought was very difficult for me, which was not practiced or might have been less practiced before.”

The first test of the new national team will be the first World Cup competition to be held in Montreal, Canada in October 28-30. Yu Haiyan looked forward to: “new cycle, new season, new lineup, new coach team, facing the new rules and new opponents, we take everyone’s new expectations to the World Cup, to the international arena, to create new brilliant achievements.”