Jiaxing athlete on winning team in Canoe Sprint World Cup in Hungary
In the women's kayak four (K4) 500m final of the Canoe Sprint World Cup in Hungary, Li Dongyin, an athlete from Jiaxing, with Yin Mengdie, Wang Nan and Sun Yuewen, represented the Chinese team and won the first place with 1 minute and 37.07 seconds on May 12, according to local media reports.
The Spanish team won the silver medal with 0.29 seconds more than the Chinese team, and the bronze medal went to the New Zealand team, whose score was only 0.6 seconds slower than that of the Chinese team.
Li Dongyin (third from left) and her team members pose for a photo with their gold medals won at the Canoe Sprint World Cup. [Photo/tianmunews.com]
Li, a native of Jiaxing in East China's Zhejiang province, finished sixth in the women's K4 500m final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with her teammates Zhou Yu, Ma Qing and Wang Nan with a time of 1 minute and 38.12 seconds.
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