Source: Xinhua
02-25-2009 08:37
Special Report: Harbin 24th Winter UniversiadeHARBIN, Northeast China, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese speed skating duo, who finished 1-2 in last Saturday's women's 3,000 meters, again stepped on the podium here Tuesday for the women's 5,000m race at the Harbin Universiade.
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| Gold medalist China's Dong Feifei (C) and her teammate silver medalist Fu Chunyan (L) and bronze medalist Poland's Luiza Zlotkowska pose for group pictures during the awarding ceremony for women's 5000m of speed skating in the 24th World Winter Universiade at Heilongjiang Speed Skating Gym in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 24, 2009. (Xinhua Photo) |
Dong Feifei, having been placed on the second in both the 1,500mand the 3,000m, made a successful late effort for the title after clocking seven minutes and 19.76 seconds, five seconds plus over the Universiade record.
Fellow Chinese Fu Chunyan, who won the first speed skating gold for China here on Saturday, took the silver medal with a time of 7:20.38, narrowly beating her pairing rival Luiza Zlotkowska of Poland to the third place on 7:20.43.
The host missed another long-course specialist Ji Jia for Tuesday's final after its top skater Wang Fei announced to quit all the events at the Universiade for a long-term consideration for next year's Winter Olympics.
