Two Chinese skaters Wang Meng and Yang Yang (A) skated into the
women's short track 1,000m quarterfinal at the Turin Winter
Olympics on Wednesday.
Wang Meng, who won the women's 500m gold and 1,500m bronze,
competed in the seventh heat and finished first at 1:37.161.
Her compatriot Yang Yang (A), the gold medalist in the Salt Lake
City Games, also qualified for the quaterfinal, taking the lead in
the second heat at 1:34.878.
Evgenia Radanova of Bulgaria, the silver medalist in the 500m in
the Games, Choi Eun-Kyung and Jin Sun-Yu of South Korea, who won
the gold and silver in the 1,500m in Turin, also qualified the
quarterfinal, which starts on Saturday.
(Xinhua News Agency February 23, 2006)
