It's a breakthrough battle!
The Chinese athlete won the first winter Olympic steel frame snowmobile project medal!
On the evening of February 11, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics men's steel frame snowmobile decided the gold medal at the National Bobsleigh Center "Snow Dragon", and the 2021 World Championship champion and German star Christopher Grotecher easily won the championship with a time of 4 minutes 01 seconds 01 seconds.
Germany's Axel Juncker finished second, China's Yan Wengang finished third in 4:01.77 and teammate Yin Zheng finished fifth.
On the first day of the men's steel-frame snowmobile race, the first round of the winning favorite Grote Hull won the audience with the best time on the track by 1 minute, and at the last time point, his extreme speed had reached 130km/h. In the second round, he slid 1m0.33 to continue to extend his lead. The total time of the two skates was 2:033, 0.7 seconds ahead of teammate Axel Juncker, and was temporarily in first place.
Before tonight's game, Grote Hull said: "The first two rounds were very smooth, I was in good shape and hopefully tonight I have the same good form and good luck. He made his first appearance in the third round of the overall skate, showing his excellent competitive form in the 4.80-second start, and he slid faster and faster in the next few corners, finishing in 1 minute 0.16 seconds. The total time of the three rounds was 3 minutes and 0.49 seconds, which almost made it impossible for other opponents to catch up. Another German player, Axel Juncker, performed well in this round, finishing in 1:00.31 and finishing second in 3:01.34.
China's Yan Wengang made his third appearance, but he failed to continue the steady state of the first two rounds, and the 4.75-second starting time did not help him slide well in the back corners, but instead made mistakes in several difficult corners. In this round, he finished with a time of 1:00.54 and a total of 3:01.62 in the three rounds, dropping to fourth. Teammate Yin Zheng played normally, sliding out of 1 minute 0.40 seconds on a single lap to continue to rank seventh.
But the Chinese players did not give up the pursuit of speed, and in the fourth round tonight, they slid faster and faster!
In the fourth round of skating, Yin Zheng skated a personal track best of 1:00.28.
Yin Zheng
Yan Wengang, who then appeared, also lived up to expectations, helping to run in the cheers of the audience, although there were mistakes on the way, but also slipped out of a good time of 1 minute 0 seconds 15. Both completed the counter-overtaking of the players in front of them, and eventually finished third and fifth. The Chinese athletes achieved a medal "breakthrough of zero" in the bobsleigh event.
Yan Wengang
On the "Snow Dragon" arena
The equipment of the Chinese players is still dazzling
The helmet that Yin Zheng wore during the competition
Known as the "Dragon and Tiger Crown"
Chinese steel frame snowmobile
cattle!
Source: Beijing Daily client (reporters Wang Yang and Guanxin), @ People's Daily, CCTV News