Wu Dajing

{{short description|Chinese short track speed skater}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}

{{Infobox speed skater

| name = Wu Dajing

| image = Moscow 2015 Relay Men After Heat 2 (9).JPG

| caption = Wu in 2015

| nationality = Chinese

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|7|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China

| height = 1.82 m

| weight = 73 kg

| country = China

| sport = Short track speed skating

| event = 500 m

| club = Jilin Province

| coach = Li Yan, Kim Sun-tae, Viktor An (Ahn Hyun-soo)

| pb = 500m: 39.505 WR (2018)
1000m: 1:23.380 (2017)
1500m: 2:12.926 (2016)
3000m: 4:51.835 (2016)

| show-medals = no

| medaltemplates=

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold|2018 Pyeongchang|500 m}}

{{MedalGold|2022 Beijing|2000 m mixed relay}}

{{MedalSilver|2014 Sochi|500 m}}

{{MedalSilver|2018 Pyeongchang|5000 m relay}}

{{MedalBronze|2014 Sochi|5000 m relay}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2014 Montreal|500 m}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Moscow|500 m}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Moscow|5000 m relay}}

{{MedalGold|2016 Seoul|5000 m relay}}

{{MedalSilver|2016 Seoul|500 m}}

{{MedalSilver|2017 Rotterdam|500 m}}

{{MedalSilver|2017 Rotterdam|5000 m relay}}

{{MedalSilver|2019 Sofia|500 m}}

{{MedalSilver|2019 Sofia|5000 m relay}}

{{MedalBronze|2015 Moscow|Overall}}

{{MedalBronze|2016 Seoul|1000 m}}

{{MedalCompetition|Asian Games}}

{{MedalGold|2017 Sapporo|500 m}}

{{MedalGold|2017 Sapporo|5000 m relay}}

{{MedalSilver|2017 Sapporo|1500 m}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Junior Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|2011 Courmayeur|500 m}}

{{MedalBronze|2010 Taipei|500 m}}

{{MedalBronze|2011 Courmayeur|Overall}}

}}

{{family name hatnote|Wu|lang=Chinese}}

{{Infobox Chinese

| c = {{linktext|武|大|靖}}

| p = Wǔ Dàjìng

| bpmf = ㄨˇ ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄥˋ

| gr = Wuu DahJinq

| w = Wu³ Ta⁴ching⁴

| tp = Wǔ Dàjìng

| myr = Wǔ Dàjìng

| mps = Wǔ Dà-jìng

| mi = {{IPAc-cmn|wu|3|-|d|a|4|-|j|ying|4}}

}}

Wu Dajing (born 24 July 1994) is a Chinese short track speed skater.{{cite web|title=Wu Dajing|url=http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-dajing-wu|work=sochi2014.com|access-date=14 February 2014|archive-date=19 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719223441/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-dajing-wu|url-status=dead}} He is a gold medalist in the Men's 500 metres at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. He won a gold medal in the Men's 500m at the 2014 ISU World Championships in Montreal, Canada.

He won China's only gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. He won the Men's 500 metres, setting an Olympic record (heat) and two world records (quarterfinal and final) while leading wire-to-wire in all three contests en route to capturing the gold.{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/wu-dajing-wins-500m-gold-medal|title=Wu Dajing dominates the field in the 500m win|publisher=nbcolympics.com|date=22 February 2018|access-date=23 February 2018|archive-date=24 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224053958/http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/wu-dajing-wins-500m-gold-medal|url-status=dead}} He became only the second person in history to have skated the discipline in under 40 seconds, after American J. R. Celski who managed the feat in 2012 in Calgary at a much higher elevation where the reduced air density tends to give the skater an advantage due to lowered air resistance. Wu also won a silver medal with his teammates in the men's 5000m team relay.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

Wu Dajing was China's flag bearer during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Asian Winter Games.{{cite web |url=http://english.cri.cn/12394/2017/02/19/4261s952199.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220013540/http://english.cri.cn/12394/2017/02/19/4261s952199.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 20, 2017 |title=Asian Winter Games opens, China wins 2 medals |date=19 February 2017 |website=www.english.cri.cn/|publisher=China Radio International |access-date=19 February 2017}}

In 2020, Wu Dajing made a special appearance in the Chinese drama TV series Skate into Love,{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} and was later cast as Yang Gensi in the 2023 film The Volunteers: To the War.