China's Wang Meng and Yang Yang skated into the women's short track 1,000m quarterfinal at the Turin Winter Olympics.

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Wang Meng, who won the women's 500m gold and 1,500m bronze, competed in the seventh heat and finshed first with brezze at 1:37.161.

Her compatriot Yang Yang, the gold medalist in the Salt Lake City Games, also qualified for the quaterfinal, taking the lead in the second heat at 1:34.878.

Evgenia Radanova of Bulgaria, the silver medalist in the 500m in the Games, Choi Eun-Kyung and Jin Sun-Yu of South Korea, who won the gold and silver in the 1,500m in Turin, also qualified the quarterfinal, which starts on Saturday.