Wu Dajing

Wu Dajing
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	24th July 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Heilongjiang , China
size	182 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 1 × Short track World Cup 4 × 5 × 3 × Short track JWM 0 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 2014 Sochi 500 m bronze 2014 Sochi 5000 m relay gold 2018 Pyeongchang 500 m silver 2018 Pyeongchang 5000 m relay  Short track world championships gold 2014 Montreal 500 m gold 2015 Moscow 500 m gold 2015 Moscow 5000 m relay bronze 2015 Moscow All-around bronze 2015 Moscow 3000 m gold 2016 Seoul 5000 m relay silver 2016 Seoul 500 m bronze 2016 Seoul 1000 m silver 2017 Rotterdam 500 m silver 2017 Rotterdam 5000 m relay silver 2019 Sofia 5000 m relay silver 2019 Sofia 500 m  Short track junior world championships bronze 2010 Taipei 500 m silver 2011 Courmayeur 500 m bronze 2011 Courmayeur All-around
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup December 2, 2011  World Cup victories 25 (including 16 individual wins)  500 m world cup 1. ( 2016/17 , 2017/18 )  1000 m world cup 3. (2017/18)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 13 5 3  1000 meters 3 0 0  Relay / team 9 4th 7th
last change: February 16, 2020

Wu Dajing ( Chinese  武大靖 , Pinyin Wǔ Dàjìng ; born July 24, 1994 in Heilongjiang ) is a Chinese short tracker .

Career

Wu made his first international appearance in January 2010 at the Junior World Championships in Taipei . There he won bronze over 500 m. In the following year he won the bronze medal in the all- around and the silver medal over 500 m at the Junior World Championships in Courmayeur . He ran his first World Cup race in Nagoya in the 2011/12 season . He finished 24th over 1000 m and 11th over 500 m. With the relay he got his first World Cup victory. At the following World Cup in Shanghai , he won again with the relay. At the beginning of the following season he won third places with the relay in Nagoya and over 500 m in Shanghai. At the World Cup in Sochi he finished second and the next day first over 500 m and thus won his first individual victory in the World Cup. With the season he got there third place. At the end of the season he finished second again at the World Cup in Dresden over 500 m and thus achieved second place in the overall World Cup over 500 m. His best results at the 2013 World Championships in Debrecen were seventh place over 500 m and fifth place with the relay. In the 2013/14 season he won over 1000 m at the World Cup in Seoul . He finished second there over 500 m and took third place at the World Cup in Kolomna over 500 m. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he won the bronze medal with the relay and the silver medal over 500 m. He also took fourth place over 1000 m. In March 2014 he won the gold medal over 500 m at the World Championships in Montreal . He finished the season in fourth place in the overall World Cup over 500 m and in the overall World Cup over 1000 m.

After finishing second in the relay and third at the World Cup in Salt Lake City over 500 m at the beginning of the following season, Wu won the 500 m in Montreal and the 1000 m in Seoul . Also in Seoul and Dresden he was third with the relay. At the last World Cup station in Erzurum he won the relay and finished second over 500 m. He finished the World Cup season in sixth place in the overall World Cup over 1000 m and in second place in the overall World Cup over 500 m. At the 2015 World Championships in Moscow , he won the bronze medal in the all-around event and over 3000 m and the gold medal over 500 m and relay. In the 2015/16 season he won two World Cup victories over 500 m and thus achieved fourth place in the overall World Cup over 500 m. With the season he won in Montreal and took third place in Toronto . At the season highlight of the 2016 World Championships in Seoul, he won the bronze medal in the 1000 m, the silver medal in the 500 m and the gold medal with the relay. After finishing second over 500 m in Calgary at the beginning of the 2016/17 season, he won three times over 500 m and twice with the relay and thus won the World Cup over 500 m. In February 2017 he won the silver medal over 1500 m and the gold medal over 500 m and with the relay at the Winter Asian Games in Sapporo . At the following world championships in Rotterdam he won over 500 m and the silver medal with the relay. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season he finished second in Budapest and third in the relay in Dordrecht . This was followed by victories in Shanghai over 500 m and 1000 m and in Seoul over 500 m. As in the previous year, he won the World Cup over 500 m and also finished third in the World Cup over 1000 m. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he won the gold medal over 500 m in a new world record time. With the relay he took the silver medal over 5000 m behind Hungary.

In the 2018/19 season, Wu achieved second place in the 500 m World Cup with three wins. He also won the mixed relay in Calgary and took second place with the relay in Salt Lake City . At the 2019 World Championships in Sofia , he won the silver medal in the relay and over 500 m. After first place in the 500 m and second place in the mixed relay in Salt Lake City at the beginning of the 2019/20 season, he won the relay in Nagoya and finished second in the 500 m in Shanghai . At the end of the season he was third in the relay and first in the mixed relay in Dordrecht and thus achieved second place in the 500 m World Cup.

World Cup victories

singles No. date place discipline 1. 3rd February 2013  Sochi 500 m 2. October 6, 2013  Seoul 1000 m 3. 15th November 2014  Montreal 500 m 4th 20th December 2014  Seoul 1000 m 5. November 1, 2015  Montreal 500 m 6th December 13, 2015  Shanghai 500 m 7th December 10, 2016  Shanghai 500 m 8th. December 11, 2016  Shanghai 500 m 9. December 18, 2016  Gangneung 500 m 10. November 11, 2017  Shanghai 500 m 11. November 12, 2017  Shanghai 1000 m 12. 18th November 2017  Seoul 500 m 13. 3rd November 2018  Calgary 500 m 14th 4th November 2018  Calgary 500 m 15th November 11, 2018  Salt Lake City 500 m 16. 3rd November 2019  Salt Lake City 500 m

Season No. date place 1. 4th December 2011  Nagoya 1 2. December 11, 2011  Shanghai 1 3. February 15, 2015  Erzurum 2 4th November 1, 2015  Montreal 2 5. November 13, 2016  Salt Lake City 3 6th December 11, 2016  Shanghai 3 7th 4th November 2018  Calgary 4 8th. 1st December 2019  Nagoya 5 9. February 15, 2020  Dordrecht 6 1With Liang Wenhao , Song Weilong and Yu Yongjun . 2With Shi Jingnan , Chen Dequan and Han Tianyu . 3With Ren Ziwei , Han Tianyu and Xu Hongzh . 4thWith Fan Kexin , Li Jinyu and Ren Ziwei. 5With An Kai , Han Tianyu and Ren Ziwei. 6thWith Fan Kexin, Han Tianyu and Zhang Yuting .

Personal bests

• 500 m 39.505 sec. (installed November 11, 2018 in Salt Lake City)
• 1000 m 1: 23.380 min. (installed on November 12, 2017 in Shanghai)
• 1500 m 2: 12.926 min. (installed on March 4, 2016 in Shanghai)
• 3000 m 4: 51.835 min. (installed on March 13, 2016 in Seoul)

Web links

• Wu Dajing in the database of ShorttrackOnLine.info (English)
• Wu Dajing at ISU
• Wu Dajing in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wu is the family name here, Dajing is the first name.