Yan Wengang
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Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||||||||
Born | Wuqing County, Tianjin, China | 1 July 1997||||||||||||||
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Country | China | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Skeleton | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yan Wengang (Chinese: 闫文港, born 1 July 1997) is a Chinese skeleton racer who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Career
Yan represented China at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the men's skeleton event and won a bronze medal.[1][2] This was China's first ever medal in a sliding sport at the Olympics.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Yan Wengang". ibsf.org. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ "Yan Wengang". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ Abrams, Jonathan (11 February 2022). "Yan Wengang wins bronze in men's skeleton, China's first medal in a sliding sport". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ Bell, Josh (11 February 2022). "Winter Olympics: historic first sliding medal for China on day seven". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
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