At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating pair skating free skating, Sui Wenjing/ Han Cong scored 155.47 points to win the gold medal with a total score of 239.88 points, which is the second time that Chinese figure skating has won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in 12 years, and this is the 9th gold medal won by the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics. Sui Wenjing/ Han Cong inherited the mantle of his predecessor Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo and carried forward Chinese figure skating.
Since the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, the Chinese team has participated in the figure skating event for the 12th consecutive Winter Olympics, but each time the Chinese team participates in a different sub-event. Both men's and women's singles are the 11th entry, the pair skating is the 9th time, the ice dance is the 8th time, and the team is the 3rd time.
In the past 11 Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese figure skating team has won a total of 1 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals, a total of 8 medals. The only gold medal came from the pairs skating. At the Vancouver Winter Olympics on February 16, 2010, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the first winter gold medal in China's figure skating event with 76.66 points in the short program, 139.91 points in free skating, and a total score of 216.57 points, breaking the monopoly of the Russians on the gold medals in the project for 12 consecutive Winter Olympics. These 3 points were all Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo's career highs, and their short program and overall score also set the world record at the time.
At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won a silver medal, and four years later in Beijing, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong set off again, and the two completed a set of actions in the short program and free skating, and finally won the championship with a total score of 239.88 points and three pairs of Russian Olympic Committee teams, and Chinese figure skating reached the top again after 12 years.
Pair skating is the dominant sport of the Chinese figure skating team, and at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the bronze medal, achieving a breakthrough of zero medals for the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics. Four years later, in Turin, Italy, Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won silver and bronze medals respectively, and the Chinese team went one step further in terms of results.
Four years ago in Pyeongchang, the "Sui-Han combination" only won the championship with a difference of 0.43 points. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, they relaunched the 2016-2017 song "Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrows", which was also the track they used when they reached the podium for the first time in the World Figure Skating Championships in 2017. The coach who taught them, Zhao Hongbo, won the gold medal in pairs skating at the Vancouver Winter Olympics 12 years ago with Shen Xue. Today, the pair of "ice couples" are also on the scene. The Olympic champion brought out the Olympic champion, and the Capital Gymnasium witnessed the new history of Chinese figure skating.