Hosts China claimed their first gold medal at the Beijing 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 the bronze medal.
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.
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