Winter Paralympics: China’s gold rush continues as hosts sweep podium in men’s snowboarding cross
- It was an all-China four-person final as the hosts cleaned up the medals in the men’s snowboard cross upper limb impaired on Monday
- The women’s super combined had China claiming two silvers and one bronze medal
China’s gold rush continued on day three of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Games.
The hosts made a clean sweep of Para snowboard men’s cross upper limb impaired event on Monday in an all-China, four-person final. The four finalists were making their Paralympic debut, but it was 19-year-old Ji Lijia who topped the podium at the end of an eventful run.
Halfway through the race, Zhang Yiqi, who was in third position, lost balance and fell, taking his teammate Zhu Yonggang down with him. As a result, Wang Pengyao stormed through to clinch the silver, while Zhu recovered to claim bronze.
The all-Chinese final emerged when Ji and Zhu earned a one-two finish in the first semi-final, followed by the other one-two made by Wang and Zhang in the second semi-final.
There was more hardware for China in the women’s super combined with Zhu Daqing winning silver in the vision impaired finals behind Slovak alpine skier and nine-time Paralympic champion Henrieta Farkasova.
