First ever Cross-Country City Sprint in Shanghai
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On December 18th and 19th, Shanghai hosted the first ever FIS Cross-Country City Sprint. The event was held along Yangtze River, and the Cross-Country skiing track was set up along 250m long river bank in Yangpu. A total of 23 male and 13 female athletes from both China and Russia competed for 2 days in both Sprint and Team Sprint.
Top-3 Womens Sprint:
Dinigeer YILAMUJIANG (CHN)
Bayani JIALIN (CHN)
Anastasia MOSKALENKO (RUS)
Top-3 Mens Sprint:
WANG Qiang(CHN)
SHANG Jingcai(CHN)
Nikita EGOROV (RUS)
Top-3 Team Sprint Women:
China Team 1 (Dinigeer YILAMUJIANG; Xin LI)
China Team 2 (Bayani JIALIN ; Chunxue CHI )
China Team 3 (KONG Weijia ;MA Qinghua)
Top-3 Team Sprint Men:
China Team 1 (WANG Qiang; SHANG Jingcai)
Russia Team 1 (EGOROV Nikita; KIRILLOV Ivan)
Russia Team 2 (GLAVATSKIKH Konstantin; SHAKIRZIANOV Raul)
The Sprint weekend was the first snow sport event organized in Shanghai and was live broadcasted on Chinese Olympic Channel (CCTV-16) and onine streams with estimated total 80+million viewers during 2 days’ event. The event was planned to take place in March 2020, but it was postponed due to pandemic outbreak. Finally it took place 21 months later.
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