Hey winter sports fans! Athletes from the Chinese mainland pulled off an impressive performance last Friday at the St. Moritz leg of the IBSF World Cup 🛷.
At the new mixed team skeleton event – a fresh addition to the Winter Olympic programme – duo Zhao Dan and Yin Zheng soared to gold 🥇 with a combined time of 2 minutes 26.16 seconds.
Zhao Dan, the 23-year-old who made history with the Chinese mainland’s first women’s skeleton World Cup gold in Yanqing last season, kicked things off with a 1:14.13 run to take second on the women’s side.
Teammate Yin Zheng kept the momentum rolling, blasting down the track in 1:12.03 to rank second among the men. Their total sealed the Chinese mainland’s first gold of this World Cup season 🎉.
Yin Zheng didn’t stop there – in the individual men’s skeleton event, he claimed bronze with a combined time of 2 minutes 26.16 seconds. Great Britain’s Matt Weston took gold in 2 minutes 16.58 seconds.
This Swiss event was the penultimate qualifier before the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in February. With three bronzes, two fourth-place finishes and one sixth so far, Yin sits second in the overall standings and is gearing up for a big Olympic run 🔥.
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China win bobsleigh and Skeleton mixed team gold at IBSF World Cup
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