First ever Cross-Country City Sprint in Shanghai

On December 18th and 19th,  Shanghai hosted the first ever FIS Cross-Country City Sprint. The event was held along Yangtze River, and the Cross-Country skiing track was set up along 250m long river bank in Yangpu. A total of 23 male and 13 female athletes from both China and Russia competed for 2 days in both Sprint and Team Sprint.

Top-3 Womens Sprint:
Dinigeer YILAMUJIANG (CHN)
Bayani JIALIN (CHN)
Anastasia MOSKALENKO (RUS)

Top-3 Mens Sprint:
WANG Qiang(CHN)
SHANG Jingcai(CHN)
Nikita EGOROV (RUS)

Top-3 Team Sprint Women:
China Team 1 (Dinigeer YILAMUJIANG; Xin LI)
China Team 2 (Bayani JIALIN ; Chunxue CHI )
China Team 3 (KONG Weijia ;MA Qinghua)

Top-3 Team Sprint Men:
China Team 1 (WANG Qiang; SHANG Jingcai)
Russia Team 1 (EGOROV Nikita; KIRILLOV Ivan)
Russia Team 2 (GLAVATSKIKH Konstantin; SHAKIRZIANOV Raul)

The Sprint weekend was the first snow sport event organized in Shanghai and was live broadcasted on Chinese Olympic Channel (CCTV-16) and onine streams with estimated total 80+million viewers during 2 days’ event. The event was planned to take place in March 2020, but it was postponed due to pandemic outbreak. Finally it took place 21 months later.

Season's greetings from the China City Sprint LOC

Dear Ski Friends,

Warmest greetings from Beijing, China.

Another challenging year is fast approaching to the end, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the ski friends Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We are striving to get back to normal routine, which is to continue promoting Cross-Country. We are pleased to tell you that we just have had a great FIS CC Skiing City Sprint in Shanghai on Dec.18-19, we missed you all who have ever joined us in the past city sprints in China.

Hopefully we will be back to completely normal in 2022, I am looking forward to seeing you again in China, in both City Sprints and other CC skiing races！

Abraham Wang 
Organizing Committee 
Cross-Country CHINA CITY SPRINT