Yang Hongqiong from China poses with her gold medal at the award ceremony for the Para cross-country skiing women's sprint sitting during the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China, March 9, 2022. /CFP
Team China announced on Sunday that Yang Hongqiong will be the flagbearer for the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games.
Yang, 32, clinched three gold medals, in Para cross-country skiing women's long distance sitting, middle distance sitting, and sprint sitting, during the Beijing Games. She had been a wheelchair basketball player before switching to Para cross-country skiing in 2018.
(With input from Xinhua News Agency)