Who is the father of Chinese short track speed skating?

Xin Qingshan.

Xin Qingshan is known as the "father of Chinese short track speed skating". From the 1980s, he trained Li Yan, Yang Yang, Li Jiajun, Wang Meng and other short-track speed skating world champions. Under his leadership, China's short-track speed skating team realized the transformation from weak to strong.

The national training team for short-track speed skating was first formed in 1985, based on the Jilin provincial short-track team led by Xin Qingshan. The initial training was very tough, lack of equipment, equipment is backward, Xin Qingshan while learning from foreign experience, while figuring out suitable training methods for Chinese athletes.

After a few years of hard work, China's short-track speed skating team began to make a name for itself in the international arena, with Li Jinyan setting the first world record in the women's 3,000-meter event in 1987, and Guo Hongru winning China's first World Championships title in 1989.

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Born in 1960 in Baishan City, Jilin Province, Xin Qingshan was a former speed skater and national champion. However, a crushing fracture of his right leg caused by a car accident ended his competitive career. Xin Qingshan said the injury brought him into contact with short-track speed skating by mistake, and he became one of China's first coaches, who also brought out world and Winter Olympic champions.

Xin has always said that without the country's training and support, his current achievements would not have been possible. 1978, he represented the country in the speed skating World Youth Championships, although the results were not ideal, but with the Winter Olympics five gold medalists in the same field, so that he broadened his horizons.

In the early 1980s, when short-track speed skating was introduced from Japan, 23-year-old Xin Qingshan became one of China's earliest coaches in the sport. From the understanding of the project to the selection of materials, and then to the training methods and means, there is no experience to draw on, "whether from the equipment, venues, or other aspects, the conditions are very difficult, and a lot of training is a continuation of the speed skating method."