Hosts China claimed their first gold medal at the Bejing Winter Olympics on Saturday, in the inaugural short track speed skating mixed relay. The team of Qu Chunyu, Fan Kexin, Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei hung on to edge out Italy by two-hundredths of a second. Hungary took bronze. Italian veteran Arianna Fontana became the first short track speed skater to win nine Olympic medals, her silver giving her a 1-3-5 haul since 2006. Pre-race favourites the Netherlands went out in the semi-final when their star Suzanne Schulting lost control and fell.