Wang Meng (speed skater)

Wang Meng (Chinese王 蒙, Pinyin Wang Meng, born April 10, 1985 in Harbin ) is a Chinese Shorttrackerin and as a four -time Olympic champion just before Chun Lee - kyung ( also four gold, one silver less) successful female athlete of the discipline.

Career

At the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin, she won over 500 m short track speed skating, the first gold medal for the Chinese team in these Olympics. In the subsequent 1000 - or 1500 - meter race Wang Meng won the silver and the bronze medal. So they took care of three of the eleven medals the Chinese team.

Wang Meng won already twenty gold medals at world championships, too. They also reached at the World Championships a total of fourteen silver and three bronze medals.

At the Olympic Games 2010 in Vancouver Wang Meng won three gold medals in short track speed skating. This was the second most successful female athlete this Olympics behind Marit Bjørgen. In the 2014 Olympics she was absent due to injury.

Winter Olympic Games Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics Short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics 2003 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2004 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2005 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2006 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2009 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2010 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2013 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships Chun Lee-kyung China at the 2006 Winter Olympics Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics List of Olympic medalists in short track speed skating Cathy Turner Yang Yang (A) Li Jianrou
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