BEIJING (Reuters) -China won their first gold medal of their home Winter Olympics when they claimed the short track speed skating mixed team relay title on Saturday.
Italy were second and Hungary finished third.
Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing, Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu clocked two minutes 37.348 seconds over 2,000 metres in the final to kick off the host country’s Games in style at the Capital Indoor Stadium.
Wu won China’s only gold medal at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang.
China won five titles at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and three in Sochi in 2014.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Ed Osmond)
