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China wins women's short track 3,000m relay

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Twice Olympic champion Wang Meng led the Chinese women to top the podium of the 3,000m short track speed skating relay with a world record at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games here on Wednesday, as South Korea was disqualified for impeding.

China won the women's 3,000m short track speed skating gold medal with a world record at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver on February 25, 2010.

"We went into the race prepared for the worst. I'm so thrilled that we won," said the 24-year-old Wang, who awarded China its second gold medal in Vancouver from the women's 500m short track a week ago.

"I was in charge of the first half of the relay and Zhou Yang was in charge of second half. Everyone stayed calm throughout the race and I'm so proud of them," she added.

Wang and teammates Zhou Yang, Sun Linlin and Zhang Hui clocked in four minutes and 6.610 seconds for the gold medal, the fourth title China has won at the Vancouver Games.

The new mark broke the Chinese team's own world record of 4:07.179 set in 2008, and awarded China its first ever relay crown since short track speed skating became an Olympic event in 1992.

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