Wu Dajing

Wu Dajing
Wu in 2015
Personal information
NationalityChinese
Born (1994-07-24) 24 July 1994
Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
CountryChina
SportShort track speed skating
Event500 m
ClubJilin Province
Coached byLi Yan, Kim Sun-tae, Viktor An (Ahn Hyun-soo)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)500m: 39.505 WR (2018)
1000m: 1:23.380 (2017)
1500m: 2:12.926 (2016)
3000m: 4:51.835 (2016)
Medal record
Olympic Games
2018 Pyeongchang500 m
2022 Beijing2000 m mixed relay
2014 Sochi500 m
2018 Pyeongchang5000 m relay
2014 Sochi5000 m relay
World Championships
2014 Montreal500 m
2015 Moscow500 m
2015 Moscow5000 m relay
2016 Seoul5000 m relay
2016 Seoul500 m
2017 Rotterdam500 m
2017 Rotterdam5000 m relay
2019 Sofia500 m
2019 Sofia5000 m relay
2015 MoscowOverall
2016 Seoul1000 m
Asian Games
2017 Sapporo500 m
2017 Sapporo5000 m relay
2017 Sapporo1500 m
World Junior Championships
2011 Courmayeur500 m
2010 Taipei500 m
2011 CourmayeurOverall
Wu Dajing
Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWǔ Dàjìng
Bopomofoㄨˇ ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄥˋ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhWuu DahJinq
Wade–GilesWu3 Ta4ching4
Tongyong PinyinWǔ Dàjìng
Yale RomanizationWǔ Dàjìng
MPS2Wǔ Dà-jìng
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Wu Dajing (born 24 July 1994) is a Chinese short track speed skater. He is a gold medalist in the Men's 500 metres at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. He won a gold medal in the Men's 500m at the 2014 ISU World Championships in Montreal, Canada.

He won China's only gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. He won the Men's 500 metres, setting an Olympic record (heat) and two world records (quarterfinal and final) while leading wire-to-wire in all three contests en route to capturing the gold. He became only the second person in history to have skated the discipline in under 40 seconds, after American J. R. Celski who managed the feat in 2012 in Calgary at a much higher elevation where the reduced air density tends to give the skater an advantage due to lowered air resistance. Wu also won a silver medal with his teammates in the men's 5000m team relay.

Wu Dajing was China's flag bearer during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Asian Winter Games.

In 2020, Wu Dajing made a special appearance in the Chinese drama TV series Skate into Love, and was later cast as Yang Gensi in the 2023 film The Volunteers: To the War.