Sui Wenjing (left)/Han Cong of China celebrate after winning the gold medal in the figure skating pair skating free skating of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 19, 2022. (CAO CAN / XINHUA)

BEIJING – Olympic figure skating champion Han Cong of China was appointed as the Skater member of the Single & Pair Skating Technical Committee, the International Skating Union announced on Monday.

Olympic figure skating champion Han Cong and partner Sui Wenjing are the second Chinese skaters to have won the Olympic gold

The ISU Council met online on September 7 and released their decisions on Monday.

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Han, who had started figure skating at age six, won the pairs gold with partner Sui Wenjing on the penultimate competition day at Beijing 2022, becoming the second Chinese skaters to have won the Olympic gold after Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo in 2010.
Han and Sui are two-time world champions, six-time Four Continents champions, and also runners-up at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

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