Liu Qiuhong

Liu Qiuhong (Chinese刘秋宏, Pinyin Liú Qiūgóng, * November 26, 1988 in Mudanjiang ) is a Chinese Shorttrackerin.

For the first time Liu resigned in January 2004 to international, as they at the Junior World Championship in 2004 went with the Chinese 2000 m relay at the start and won silver. In the next few winters, she let out another race outside of national and came only in short track speed skating World Cup 2007/ 08 back. There she was able to reach the podium over 1500 meters in her second World Cup race as third parties. Also in the next World Cup they could place always in the top ten before her first World Cup win was on November 25, 2007 in Heerenveen on the 500 - m distance.

After Liu had won two third places in the 2007/ 08 season and had become fifth overall in the 1500 m World Cup, she also went to the 2008 World Championship on four routes to the start. While she was over 1500 meters Sixth and was eliminated in the 1000 meters in the quarter- finals, they could on the 500 -m distance to win the silver medal behind her compatriot Wang Meng and thus qualify for the 3000 -meter super final of the top seven. At this one race in which Wang Meng did not win, she was again sixth. In the addition of won for their rankings points she finally was fifth overall.

In the World Cup 2008/ 09 Liu started with another podium by finishing one each of the first two races over 500 meters and 1000 meters on the second place. In the first season of the World Cup season, she was also able to improve together with Wang Meng, Zhang Hui and Zhou Yang in the semifinals of the South Koreans the world record by almost three seconds. In addition, she won her second race, again over 500 meters at the World Cup third station in her home country.

Liu won the team at the 2008 World Championships in Harbin gold, just as in 2009 in Heerenveen. 2011 in Warsaw, she won the team bronze at the Asian Winter Games 2011 in Astana and Almaty gold in the relay. At the World Championships 2011 in Sheffield, she was with the relay world champion and won bronze on 500 and 3000 m. The Best World Cup they could achieve with the Chinese squadron in 2012 in Shanghai, 2013 in Debrecen and 2014 in Montreal. She was also in Shanghai over 1500 m in second.

At the Olympic Games in Sochi, she won a medal. She was disqualified over 500m and fourth in the relay in the final.