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Wang Beixing

Wang in 2007
Personal information
Born	(1985-03-10) 10 March 1985 (age 39) Heilongjiang
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Sport	Speed skating
Medal record Women's speed skating Representing  China Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver 500 m World Championships 2009 Moscow Sprint 2005 Inzell 500 m 2007 Salt Lake City 500 m 2008 Nagano 500 m 2009 Vancouver 500 m 2013 Sochi 500 m 2011 Inzell 500 m Asian Winter Games 2007 Changchun 500 m 2007 Changchun 1000 m 2007 Changchun 100 m 2011 Astana-Almaty 500 m
Updated on 11 February 2014

Wang Beixing (Chinese: 王北星; pinyin: Wáng Běixīng; born 10 March 1985) is a Chinese long track speed skater, specializing in short distances (500 m and 1000 m).

Wang first competed in 2003. Her breakthrough came in the 2004–05 season, winning several times in the World Cup B-group and competing in the A-group. At the World Single Distance Championships she won silver. She appeared to be a medal candidate at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She got a 7th place in the 500 m and a 29th in the 1000 m.

In January 2009, she won the World Sprint Championships, the first Chinese woman to do so since Ye Qiaobo in 1993. She won the bronze medal in the 500 m sprint at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

She was formerly coached by retired Canadian Olympic medallist and former world record holder Kevin Overland.

Personal records

References

1. Brown, Josh (February 10, 2010). "Kitchener coach aims to extend South Korea's speed skating medal streak". Waterloo Region Record. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
2. "Beixing Wang". www.speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 3 February 2014.

External links

• Wang Beixing at SkateResults.com Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
• Personal records of Wang Beixing at Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database

• 1985 births
• Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
• Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
• Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
• Olympic speed skaters for China
• Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
• Olympic medalists in speed skating
• Olympic bronze medalists for China
• Chinese female speed skaters
• Sportspeople from Harbin
• Living people
• Asian Games medalists in speed skating
• Speed skaters at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
• Speed skaters at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
• Speed skaters at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
• Asian Games gold medalists for China
• Asian Games silver medalists for China
• Medalists at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
• Medalists at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
• World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
• World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
• 20th-century Chinese women
• 21st-century Chinese women