The first international appearances Liang showed as B-Junior at the Junior World Championships 2009 in Sherbrooke, Canada . There he achieved fourth place over 500 meters as the best individual result and also won the silver medal with the Chinese relay. In the next season, the now 17-year-old made his first World Cup appearances over 500 meters . After he was eliminated in the preliminary races at the opening competitions in Seoul and in his home town of Beijing , he made it to the A final at the World Cup final in Marquette . There he was disqualified as the cause of the fall of the South Korean Sung Si-bak and thus finally took fourth place. This was enough to qualify for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , where he was part of the eleven-member Chinese short track team. At the Olympics, he started in all four races and was particularly successful in the 1500 meters, where he was initially a thousandth of a second faster than Canadian co-favorite Charles Hamelin and then became the only Chinese to advance to the A final. There were several changes in leadership there; Initially, Liang was also partly at the top. However, he eventually fell back to sixth after being involved in a fall and was more than half a minute behind the medal ranks. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he finished fourth in the 500m final.
Web links
Liang Wenhao in the database of ShorttrackOnLine.info (English)
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liang is the family name here, Wenhao is the first name.
People's Republic of China
