Beijing time on February 11, the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation once again created history, representing the Chinese team Yan Wengang won the bronze medal in the Beijing Winter Olympics men's steel frame snowmobile competition, which is the first time that a Chinese player won a medal in the steel frame snowmobile competition, in today's competition, Yan Wengang's performance was 4 minutes 01.77 seconds, this result created China's best result, it is worth mentioning that another Chinese player Yin Zheng also performed well, he won the fifth place in today's competition.
The gold medal of the Chinese team is not easy to come by, you know, the Chinese steel frame snowmobile national team was officially established in October 2015, at the beginning of its establishment, there was no professional competition venue in China, so at that time the Chinese national team could only go to foreign countries to rent a venue for training, it is worth mentioning that Yan Wengang was the earliest long jumper, he officially began to pick up the steel frame snowmobile at the end of 16 years, before 4 years, Yan Wengang began to participate in the world steel frame snowmobile event, and his progress speed is also very rapid, In less than a year, he won the championship in the Federation European Championship in 1:42.85 in Reysee, and in the following years, Yan Wengang's performance has been relatively stable, always belonging to the world's first-line players, until tonight he stood on the podium of the Winter Olympics, that is, he only took 5 years to stand on the world's highest podium from an amateur player.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng, China also has a world-class player, that is, Geng Wenqiang, who won the World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, in November 2021, becoming China's first steel frame snowmobile World Cup champion.