Liang Jing (; March 1990 – 22 May 2021) was a Chinese
ultramarathon
An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of . Various distances are raced competitively, from the shortest common ultramarathon of to over . 50k and 100k are bot ...
runner; he died in the
Gansu ultramarathon disaster.
Liang won several ultramarathons, including the Ultra Gobi—a race through the
Gobi Desert
The Gobi Desert (Chinese: 戈壁 (沙漠), Mongolian: Говь (ᠭᠣᠪᠢ)) () is a large desert or brushland region in East Asia, and is the sixth largest desert in the world.
Geography
The Gobi measures from southwest to northeast an ...
—in 2018.
He died on 22 May 2021, at the age of 31, when high winds and freezing rain
struck a long-distance race in
Baiyin,
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
, China. Twenty other runners died in the tragedy.
He was nicknamed "Liang God" and "General Liang" and was considered "one of China's most accomplished ultramarathoners".
See also
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Huang Guanjun
Huang Guanjun (; 1987 – 22 May 2021) was a Chinese marathon runner; he died in the Gansu ultramarathon disaster.
Huang was the champion in the men's hearing-impaired marathon at China's 2019 National Paralympic Games. He died on 22 May 2021, ...
, another champion runner who died in the Gansu ultramarathon
References
1990 births
2021 deaths
Chinese male marathon runners
Place of birth missing
Sport deaths in China
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