Long time no see! With the Beijing Winter Olympics approaching, the preparation of the Chinese figure skating team has also attracted much attention. A number of media outlets have posted the latest photos of Yao Bin, former head coach of the national figure skating team.
Compared with before, Coach Yao Bin is obviously much older. After three years of retirement, Yao Bin decided to re-emerge from the mountains. This time, he coached the men's singles, women's singles and ice dance groups, assisting Zhao Hongbo, the current head coach of the national figure skating team.
Yao Bin, who is 64 years old, has made a comeback for China's figure skating career and has been an assistant to his former disciples, which is admirable!
Regarding yao bin's achievements in coaching, most netizens know more about it. But Yao Bin's athlete experience, many netizens do not know.
In 1970, at the age of 13, Yao Bin won the National Junior Men's A Championship, after which he transformed into a pair skater and won the national pair skating championship for 5 consecutive times.
In 1980, at the age of 23, Yao Bin participated in the World Championships for the first time. In 1984, at the age of 27, Yao Bin stood as an athlete at the Winter Olympics.
As china's first figure skating world championship medal athlete, Yao Bin immediately after retiring from the army transformed into a coach, in 1986, 29-year-old Yao Bin bid farewell to the Harbin team and began to serve as the coach of the figure skating national team.
Under the careful cultivation of Yao Bin, China's double figure skating reached the top of the world, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo, Pang Qing/Tong Jian, Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao, China's three pairs of pairs of double skaters have repeatedly reached the podium in the World Series. Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won China's first Olympic gold medal in figure skating.
In 2004, Yao Bin was awarded the Academy Award representing the honor of best coach by the authoritative American magazine "International Figure Skating", and Japan's NHK Television awarded Yao Bin the world figure skating coach of the year.
In addition, Yao Bin also won the National Sports Medal of Honor and the CCTV Sports Personality Best Coach Award.
In 2017, the 60-year-old Yao Bin stepped down as the head coach of the Chinese figure skating team, and his disciple Zhao Hongbo took over the title of mentor.
Now, only 4 years after leaving the national team, the 64-year-old Yao Bin has come out of the mountains again, hoping that Coach Yao Bin can help athletes improve their ability and competitive level, and also wish Coach Yao Bin good health.