Yu Jing (sledge hockey)
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| Born | 22 September 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yu Jing (born 22 September 1983) is a Chinese ice sledge hockey player. She is a gold medalist at Pool B of the World Para Ice Hockey Championships and a bronze medalist at the Winter Paralympics.
Career
Yu competed for the China national team at Pool B of the 2021 World Para Ice Hockey Championships, where they won the gold medal.[1]
At the 2022 Winter Paralympics, Yu became the third female para ice hockey player at the Winter Paralympic Games after Norwegians Britt Mjaasund Øyen and Lena Schrøder and the first Chinese woman to do so.[2][3] She was also a member of China's bronze medal-winning team in para ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, thus becoming the second woman to win a Paralympic medal in this sport.[4]
References
- ^ 残疾人奥林匹克运动会 (2022-03-08). "#女神节致敬冬残奥女性参与者#". 新浪微博 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2022-03-13. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ^ "People's Republic of China set for a number of firsts in Beijing 2022 Para ice hockey tournament". olympics.com. 5 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- ^ "Jing Yu wants to inspire more female players after 'perfect day' in Paralympic debut". paralympic.org. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ "Yifeng Shen and Zhidong Wang lead China to historic bronze on home soil". paralympic.org. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.