Ren Ziwei

Ren Ziwei
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	3rd June 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Harbin , China
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 3 × 1 × JWM medals 5 × 3 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang 5000 m relay  Short track world championships silver 2017 Rotterdam 5000 m relay silver 2018 Montreal 500 m silver 2019 Sofia 5000 m relay bronze 2019 Sofia 500 m  Short track junior world championships gold 2014 Erzurum 3000m relay bronze 2014 Erzurum 1500m silver 2015 Osaka 1000m silver 2015 Osaka 3000m relay gold 2016 Sofia All-around gold 2016 Sofia 1000m gold 2016 Sofia 1500m superfinal gold 2016 Sofia 3000m relay silver 2016 Sofia 1500m
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 5th December 2015  World Cup victories 7 (including 2 individual wins)  500 m world cup 10. ( 2018/19 )  1000 m world cup 4. ( 2018/19 )  1500 m world cup 6. ( 2019/20 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1000 meters 0 1 1  1500 meters 2 0 1  Relay / team 5 2 2
last change: February 16, 2020

Ren Ziwei (born June 3, 1997 in Harbin ) is a Chinese short tracker .

Career

Ren first appeared internationally in March 2014 at the Junior World Championships in Erzurum . There he won the bronze medal over 1500 m and the gold medal with the relay. In the following year he won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in Osaka over 1000 m and with the relay. He made his debut in the Short Track World Cup in Nagoya in December 2015 and finished 26th over 1500 m and 21st place over 1000 m. At the following World Cup in Shanghai , he won his first World Cup victory over 1500 m. At the Junior World Championships in Sofia in 2016 , he won the silver medal in the 1500 m and gold medal in the all-around, over 1000 m, in the 1500 m superfinal and with the relay. In the 2016/17 season he won the World Cup in Salt Lake City and Shanghai with the relay. At the 2017 World Championships in Rotterdam , he won the silver medal with the relay. In February 2017 he won the gold medal with the relay at the Winter Asian Games in Sapporo . In the 2017/18 World Cup season he finished second in Budapest and third in the relay in Dordrecht . His best individual result of the season was fourth in Seoul over 500 m. At the season highlight, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he won the silver medal with the 5000 m relay. He finished sixth in the 500 m run. In March 2018, he won the silver medal over 500 m at the World Championships in Montreal .

In the 2018/19 season, Ren achieved third place over 1000 m in Calgary and second place in Salt Lake City over 1000 m, tenth place in the World Cup over 500 m and fourth place in the World Cup over 1000 m. He also won in Calgary with the mixed relay and won second place in Salt Lake City with the relay. At the 2019 World Championships in Sofia , he won the bronze medal over 500 m and the silver medal with the relay. In the all-around competition he took eighth place there. In the following season he got three wins, two of them with the relay and two third places and thus finished sixth in the World Cup over 1500 m.

World Cup victories

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 13, 2015	Shanghai	1500 m
2.	February 8, 2020	Dresden	1500 m

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place
1.	November 13, 2016	Salt Lake City 1
2.	December 11, 2016	Shanghai 1
3.	4th November 2018	Calgary 2
4th	9th November 2019	Montreal 3
5.	1st December 2019	Nagoya 4

¹With Han Tianyu , Xu Hongzhi and Wu Dajing .

²With Fan Kexin , Li Jinyu and Wu Dajing.

³With Han Tianyu, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Yuting .

^4thWith An Kai , Han Tianyu and Wu Dajing.

Personal bests

• 500 m 40.032 sec. (installed on February 22, 2018 in Gangneung)
• 1000 m 1: 23.019 min. (installed on November 4, 2018 in Calgary)
• 1500 m 2: 13.781 min. (installed on December 13, 2015 in Shanghai)
• 3000 m 5: 04.748 min. (installed on March 18, 2018 in Montreal)

Web links

• Ren Ziwei at ISU
• Ren Ziwei on The-Sports.org