On the 11th, in the curling event of the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games, the Chinese Taipei men's and women's curling teams have good news. Among them, the women's curling team defeated the Thai team 10-2 and won the Qatar team 9-5, closing the second consecutive victory. The men's team withdrew 7:4 from Kyrgyzstan and won the first round robin.

Li Yijun, Zhang Jiaqi and Liu Yiling in the Asian Winter Games

In this Asian Winter Games, the women's curling team of the Chinese Taipei team sent Li Yijun, Yang Ge, Liu Yiling, and Zhang Jiaqi to participate in the competition. In order to participate in this Asian Winter Games, they actively looked for teammates who could form a women's team, and finally met Zhang Jiaqi, and the four of them joined hands to compete.

Captain Yang Ge said: "We especially want to participate in the Asian Winter Games, so we have been actively looking for local players from Taiwan, hoping that they can join us to participate in international competitions, and I happened to have the honor to meet Jiaqi last year." ”

Recalling the process of getting married at that time, Zhang Jiaqi said that because his teammates are all from Taiwan, China, every year when he returns to Taiwan, he will come to the ice rink to meet local players and teach. At that time, they met through another Chinese Taipei player, and the five of them teamed up to participate in the international competition.

There is no standard curling venue in Taiwan, and Taichung, where Zhang Jiaqi lives, does not even have an ice rink, so if he wants to practice on the ice, he can only run to Taipei, or use the winter and summer vacations as a teacher to practice abroad. In order to cultivate tacit understanding, the four of them usually discuss through video, and they will also meet to train together to prepare for the international competition.

In addition to overcoming the difficulties of practice, Zhang Jiaqi admitted that the harder part is the language, her teammates all speak Chinese, but she is still used to speaking English when playing curling, and she also has to work hard to integrate.

The four-man came to Harbin from Japan and Seattle respectively before the game, and they didn't have much time to practice together, so they had to make adjustments through each round-robin match, Yang said: "After all, we rarely play together, and we feel that through this competition, the tacit understanding is getting better and better." ”

On the first day, South Korea and China had a large score gap, and after adjustments, although they lost to Kazakhstan on the second morning, they won 10-2 against Thailand in the evening. Facing Qatar on the 11th is also a planned victory. At the end of the first four days of the competition, the Chinese Taipei women's curling team finished in sixth place with 2 wins and 3 losses.

On the 12th, there will be a one-day double match against Hong Kong and Japan, in addition to setting the team to win, Yang Ge also expects everyone to improve every game when facing stronger teams.