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Canadian short track speed skater Charles Hamelin completed his Olympic career in style on Wednesday (16 February).
BEIJING — Charles Hamelin became Canada's most decorated male Winter Olympian, helping Canada win gold in the men's 5,000-metre short-track speedskating relay on Wednesday.
The 2022 Winter Olympics is set to kick off in Beijing, China with the opening ceremony taking place on 4 February. Beijing will make history when it becomes the first city to host a summer and winter games and it takes place just a few months after the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics.
Short track speed skating at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 was packed with excitement and drama, unexpected wins and historic records. Shaoang Liu brought Hungary its first individual Winter Olympics gold medal while Hanne Desmet won Belgium's first-ever medal in the sport.
Choi Min-jeong denied Arianna Fontana and Suzanne Schulting another Beijing Winter Olympic gold as she retained her 1500m title to close the short track speed skating programme. There was barely anything to separate the three favourites for the race, but the South Korean surged clear to win in 2:17.81 having earlier set a new Olympic record, with Fontana claiming silver over Schulting after a photo finish.
Arianna Fontana has rewritten the record books at Beijing 2022.
World record-holder Choi Minjeong of the Republic of Korea successfully defended her women’s 1500m title in the Beijing 2022 short track skating at the Capital Indoor Stadium on Wednesday (16 February).