Wang Beixing
Women's speed skating | ||
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Representing China | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2010 Vancouver | 500 m | |
World Championships | ||
2009 Moscow | Sprint | |
2005 Inzell | 500 m | |
2007 Salt Lake City | 500 m | |
2008 Nagano | 500 m | |
2009 Vancouver | 500 m | |
2013 Sochi | 500 m | |
2011 Inzell | 500 m | |
Asian Winter Games | ||
2007 Changchun | 500 m | |
2007 Changchun | 1000 m | |
2007 Changchun | 100 m | |
2011 Astana-Almaty | 500 m |
Wang Beixing (Chinese: 王北星; pinyin: Wáng Běixīng; born 10 March 1985) is a Chinese long track speed skater, specializing in short distances (500 m and 1000 m).
Wang first competed in 2003. Her breakthrough came in the 2004–05 season, winning several times in the World Cup B-group and competing in the A-group. At the World Single Distance Championships she won silver. She appeared to be a medal candidate at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She got a 7th place in the 500 m and a 29th in the 1000 m.
In January 2009, she won the World Sprint Championships, the first Chinese woman to do so since Ye Qiaobo in 1993. She won the bronze medal in the 500 m sprint at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
She was formerly coached by retired Canadian Olympic medallist and former world record holder Kevin Overland.[1]
Personal records
Personal records[2] | ||||
Women's speed skating | ||||
Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
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500 m | 36.85 | 15 November 2013 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City | |
1000 m | 1:13.98 | 11 November 2007 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City | |
1500 m | 1:59.76 | 29 September 2007 | Olympic Oval, Calgary | |
3000 m | 4:33.08 | 25 October 2003 | Olympic Oval, Calgary |
References
- ^ Brown, Josh (February 10, 2010). "Kitchener coach aims to extend South Korea's speed skating medal streak". Waterloo Region Record. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
- ^ "Beixing Wang". www.speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
External links
- Wang Beixing at SkateResults.com Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Personal records of Wang Beixing at Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
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- 1970: Lyudmila Titova
- 1971: Ruth Schleiermacher
- 1972: Monika Pflug
- 1973: Sheila Young
- 1974: Leah Poulos
- 1975–76: Sheila Young
- 1977: Sylvia Burka
- 1978: Lyubov Sadchikova
- 1979: Leah Poulos-Mueller
- 1980–81: Karin Enke
- 1982: Natalya Petrusyova
- 1983–84: Karin Enke
- 1985: Christa Rothenburger
- 1986–87: Karin Kania
- 1988: Christa Rothenburger
- 1989: Bonnie Blair
- 1990: Angela Hauck-Stahnke
- 1991: Monique Garbrecht
- 1992–93: Ye Qiaobo
- 1994–95: Bonnie Blair
- 1996: Chris Witty
- 1997: Franziska Schenk
- 1998: Catriona Le May Doan
- 1999–01: Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt
- 2002: Catriona Le May Doan
- 2003: Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt
- 2004: Marianne Timmer
- 2005: Jennifer Rodriguez
- 2006: Svetlana Zhurova
- 2007: Anni Friesinger
- 2008: Jenny Wolf
- 2009: Wang Beixing
- 2010: Lee Sang-hwa
- 2011: Christine Nesbitt
- 2012: Yu Jing
- 2013: Heather Richardson
- 2014: Yu Jing
- 2015–16: Brittany Bowe
- 2017: Nao Kodaira
- 2018: Jorien ter Mors
- 2019: Nao Kodaira
- 2020: Miho Takagi
- 2022: Jutta Leerdam
- 2024: Miho Takagi