Ling Zhi (; born April 6, 1994) is a Chinese
curler from
Harbin.
Career
Ling represented China at the
2014 World Junior Curling Championships, where his team finished in last place with a winless 0–9 record. In 2013 and 2014, he won back-to-back
Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships The Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships (formerly known as the Pacific Junior Curling Championships) was an annual curling bonspiel held in the World Curling Federation's Pacific zone. The championships featured curlers under the age of 21 com ...
.
Ling represented China internationally at the men's level at the
third leg of the
Curling World Cup event. He played third on Team
Ma Xiuyue
Ma Xiuyue (; born May 21, 1991) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. He won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and represented China at the 2022 Winter Olympics, skipping the men's curling team.
Career
Ma represented C ...
, which finished with a 1–5 record.
In mixed play, Ling competed at the
2017 World Mixed Curling Championship as third for
Liu Sijia
Liu Sijia (; born July 20, 1988) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. She skipped the Chinese National Women's Curling Team at both the and World Women's Curling Championships.
Career
As a junior curler Liu won a gold medal at the 2010 Pacific ...
. The team reached the round of 16, where the Czech Republic eliminated them.
Ling played
mixed doubles with partner
Yang Ying but now plays with
Fan Suyuan. At the
2019 World Mixed Doubles Qualification Event, Yang and Ling teamed up to secure China a spot in the
2020 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, defeating Turkey in the qualification final. The 2020 World Championship, however, was cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...
. Yang and Ling did get a chance to represent China at the
2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
The 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from May 17 to 23 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Because of cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first of two events for mixed doubles teams to qualify for the 2022 Olympics ...
, where they finished in ninth place with a 4–5 record.
On February 7, 2022, in the 13th round of the curling mixed doubles round-robin competition at the
Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team Ling Zhi/
Fan Suyuan lost 6-8 to
Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
*Czech, ...
players
Tomáš Paul
Tomáš Paul (born 3 April 1988 in Prague) is a Czech curler.
Curling career
Men's
Playing of Charles University, Paul has played in two Winter Universiades. The first was the 2011 Winter Universiade, where Paul threw second stones ...
/Suzanne Paulova, who suffered 7 consecutive games. In the end, Ling Zhi/
Fan Suyuan ended the Winter Olympics with 9th place.
Teams
Men's
Mixed doubles
References
External links
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1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Harbin
Chinese male curlers
Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic curlers of China