Steel frame snowmobile, China's first bronze medal!

[Global Times reporter Yang Xun Xu Yunfeng] The Chinese team has made a historic breakthrough, and the first medal won by Chinese athletes in the winter Olympics gliding events (bobsleigh, bobsleigh, steel frame snowmobile) was produced! On the evening of the 11th, the men's steel frame snowmobile of the Beijing Winter Olympics ended the fourth round of competition, and China's Yan Wengang won the bronze in 4 minutes 01.77 seconds, refreshing the best record in the history of the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics. Another Chinese player, Yin Zheng, finished fifth, and the gold medal in the event was won by Germany's Grote Herr.

Yan Wengang's bronze medal is also the first Winter Olympic medal of the Chinese steel frame snow team. In the third and fourth rounds of the Men's Steel Frame Snowmobile Competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics on the evening of the 11th, the competition curve of the two Chinese players showed an upward trend - Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng temporarily ranked fourth and seventh in the third round to the third and fifth places.

It is worth noting that in this steel frame snowmobile competition, the gold and silver medals were won by German players. At the same time, the German bobsleigh team won all 4 gold medals in the bobsleigh event in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, which shows the strong strength of the German team in the winter Olympics gliding event.

Yan Wengang said in an interview with the Global Times reporter after the game that the first few slides are more conservative, and the last slide has abandoned other distractions, that is, to spell it out.

On the same day, the first and second rounds of the women's steel frame snowmobile competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics began, and zhao Dan, a "post-00s" youngster who served as the female standard-bearer of the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and his teammate Li Yuxi temporarily ranked 4th and 10th.

According to the schedule of the event, the third and fourth rounds of the women's steel frame snowmobile will be played on the evening of the 12th, when the champion and runner-up will be decided.