Ren Long

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

Ren Long
Association	People's Republic of China
birthday	December 21, 1988
place of birth	China
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2006
Debut in the World Cup	2006
status	not active
World Cup balance
last change: March 19, 2008

Ren Long ( Chinese  任 龙 , Pinyin Rén Lóng ; born December 21, 1988 ) is a Chinese cross-country skier and biathlete .

Ren began his career as a cross-country skier. He competed in his first international races in 2004 and 2005 in China as part of the Far East Cup . In 2006 he started in Pragelato Plan at the Olympic Games in Turin . In the pursuit race he finished 62nd in the 50 kilometer race 63rd. Long contested his only cross-country skiing world cup race in March 2006 in Changchun . In the sprint he finished 41st and did not qualify for the final races. Then he switched from cross-country skiers to biathletes.

Ren made his debut in Obertilliach in 2006 as part of the Biathlon European Cup races on an international level in biathlon. As 16th in the sprint, he immediately won his first European Cup points. He then made his debut in Hochfilzen with the relay (rank 12) in the Biathlon World Cup . Since then he has been competing almost exclusively at this highest level internationally. First career highlight was the Biathlon World Championships 2007 from Antholz , where Long was 82nd in singles and 17th in the relay. Also in the 2007/08 season , the Chinese competed in almost all races of the World Cup. The Biathlon World Championships 2008 from Östersund 88 he could rankings 77 in single, sprint and 16 show in the relay. But it wasn't until the final World Cup station of the season at Holmenkollen in Oslo that Ren won World Cup points for the first time in 26th place in the sprint competition. Nevertheless, Ren was no longer included in the national team for the following year and only started again in the World Cup in 2010.

Placements in the biathlon world cup

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring		2	1		14th	17th
Starts	7th	16	4th		14th	41
Status: after the 2010/2011 season

Web links

• Ren Long in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Ren Long in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ren Long in the database of the IBU (English)