Chinese Wang Meng wins the women's 500m short track speed skating gold medal at the Turin Winter Olympics here on Feb. 15, 2006.

The Olympic debutant led all the way to clock 44.345 seconds, winning the nation's third winter Olympic gold after Yang Yang's two in 2002.

The 20-year-old Wang, who has won four World Cup races over 500m, proved herself as the most consistent short tracker in the world.

Her victory helped ease China's pain of losing an expected gold in the women's 500m long-track speed skating when World Cup leader Wang Manli came second to Russia's Svetlana Zhurova on Tuesday.

重点词汇

debutant n. 初次登台的人