On the 23rd local time, the men's single event competition was held in Winterberg, Germany, at the 2023-2024 skeleton World Championships. After four rounds of fierce competition, Chinese player Yin Zheng won the bronze medal with a total time of 3:45.92 in four rounds, setting a personal best result in the World Championships, and also became the first Chinese athlete to stand on the podium of the World Championships, achieving a historic breakthrough.
Yin Zheng has been practicing skeleton for nearly seven years, and in May 2017, when the Chinese skeleton team was founded, he "switched" from sprinting to skeleton. Over the years, he has trained hard, achieved breakthroughs step by step, and has also followed the Chinese skeleton program from scratch and gradually grown. He has stood on the podium in the skeleton European Championships and the Continental Cup, and has also been on the Winter Olympics stage - Yin Zheng finished fifth on the stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and completed his Winter Olympic "debut" with an excellent finish.
Strong starting ability is one of the technical characteristics of Yin Zheng. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, his cart started only 458 seconds, setting a new track start record. At the end of 2022, he won gold at the International Bobsleigh Federation World Championships. Due to his explosive power, his cart ability is world-class. In this World Championships, it was with his excellent starting ability that Yin Zheng established a certain lead in the first half of the skating and laid the foundation for the final podium.
Since February, he has won gold medals at the skeleton World Cup in Latvia and Altenberg, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win two World Cup gold medals, and then made a medal breakthrough at the World Championships. "It's been hard along the way, but I'm going to keep going. Thank you to the motherland, thank you to the team, thank you to everyone who gave me help and support," Yin Zheng wrote on social **. After years of accumulation and precipitation, the Chinese skeleton team has also achieved good results in the hard work and efforts of each member. "I believe that the future of skeleton in China will get better and better," Yin Zheng said.