Bronze medal even after running in one year… Yoon Sung-bin wins gold medal

When Yun Seong-bin (27, Gangwon Provincial Office, photo), a male skeleton gold medalist at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, appeared on the start line of the St. Moritz track in Switzerland on the 15th, a local TV broadcast announcer shouted: And immediately followed admiration. This is because Yoon Sung-bin, who appeared at the international competition in almost a year, ended the start in 4 seconds, the fastest among the players on this day.

The Korean sledding team, including Yoon Sung-bin, did not participate in the 1st-5th rounds of the 2020-2021 International Bobsleigh Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup due to concerns about the spread of a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). Because of that, Yoon Sung-bin was in a state of lacking the ability to adapt to the icy conditions that vary from track to track. An official from the Korea Bobsleigh Skeleton Games Federation also stressed that before the start of the competition, “in this competition, it is more important to recover the sense of actual performance than winning a prize.”

However, Yoon Seong-bin, who is called’Iron Man’, was also a mastermind. Yoon Sung-bin, who finished the first race in 5th place (1 minute 8 seconds 61), raised the ranking to 3rd place (1 minute 8 seconds 71) by further reducing the start record to 4 seconds 74 in the second race. The total record for the first and second periods (2 minutes, 17 seconds, 32) was also third. On February 15 last year, Sungbin Yoon climbed to the podium 11 months after the 8th World Cup last season and won a bronze medal around his neck. Yun Seong-bin, who is aiming for a second consecutive Olympic victory at the 2022 Beijing Games, said, “I came to participate in the competition very late, but it is not bad because I finished the starting competition well. This season, rather than making good results, I will try.” The national team, including Yoon Sung-bin, will move to Germany’s Konigz-Zero to prepare for the 7th World Cup. On the other hand, in this 6th tournament, Alexander Gasner (31, Germany, 2:16:85) ranked first in the World Cup for the first time in his life, and Martins Ducurs (37, Latvia, 2:16:86), the’power of tradition’, was 0.01. He won the silver medal in the second car. Among Korean players, Kim Ji-soo (27, Gangwon Provincial Office) took 13th place with 2 minutes, 18 seconds and 77 seconds.

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