Record high number of female Para athletes Guo Yujie of China gestures to spectators after the biathlon women's sprint standing event during the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games at the National Biathlon Centre in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, March 5, 2022. (Xinhua/Wang Xi) The number of female Para athletes at Beijing 2022 Paralympics has grown tremendously, featuring a record 138 participants, an increase on the 133 that took part at PyeongChang 2018.
YANQING, Beijing, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese skier Zhang Mengqiu won her second gold here in women's giant slalom standing on Friday at Beijing Paralympic Winter Games Zhang clocked a winning time of one minute and 55.12 seconds over two runs, 5.
CHONGLI, Zhangjiakou, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Liu Mengtao, 20, has become the first Chinese Para biathlete to win three medals (two golds and a bronze) at a Winter Paralympic Games, after claiming the men's individual sitting title at Beijing 2022 here on Friday. Having taken the sprint bronze on March 5 and the middle distance gold on March 8, Paralympic debutant Liu finished first in the 12.
Under the deafening sound of cheering, Chinese athlete Zheng Peng looked very exhausted as he rushed across the finish line in the Men's Sprint Sitting final for Para Cross-Country Skiing and won his second gold medal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics on Wednesday. "The temperature difference between the morning and the afternoon was relatively great, a bit similar to the time in Pyeongchang.
