Liang Wenhao

Liang Wenhao (Chinese梁文豪, Liang Wenhao Pinyin, born July 6, 1992 in Changchun ) is a Chinese Shorttracker.

The first international appearances showed Liang as B- Junior at the Junior World Championships in 2009 in the Canadian Sherbrooke. He reached for the best individual result a fourth place over 500 meters and won in addition to the Chinese season the silver medal. Next season, the now 17 -year-old 500-meter came to his first World Cup inserts. After he was initially retired at the start of competitions in Seoul as well as in his home in Beijing in the heats, the collection succeeded him at the World Cup finals in Marquette into the A-final. There he was disqualified as the cause of the fall of the South Korean Sung Si -bak and finally finished as fourth place. This was sufficient for qualification to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, where he belonged to eleven Chinese short track speed skating team. At the Olympics he competed in all four events and was particularly successful over 1500 meters, where in the flow around a thousandth of a second, he was initially faster than the Canadian co-favorite Charles Hamelin and then advancing the only Chinese to the A-final. There were several leadership changes; initially, Liang was partially on top. Eventually, however, he fell back to sixth place after he was involved in a crash, and had more than half a minute behind the medals. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 he finished third in the final of the 500 m in fourth place.