Who won the first gold medal in China Winter Olympics?

The athlete who won China's first gold medal in the Winter Olympics was Yang Yang.

In the 2002 Winter Olympics, Yang Yang won the 500-meter and 1000-meter short track speed skating championships in succession, becoming the first athlete in China to win the gold medal in the Winter Olympics, breaking the embarrassing situation that China people won no gold medal in the Winter Olympics.

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Yang Yang was born in an ordinary family in Tangyuan County, Heilongjiang Province. When Yang Yang was just born, he was a quiet child and almost never cried. Seeing the child so quiet, Yang's mother gave Yang a nickname "Bing Xin", which means calm as ice. Yang Yang's father is a policeman and his mother runs a small photo studio.

Naughty and stubborn, Yang Yang has an innate talent and love for skating since he was a child. At the age of eight, Yang Yang was attracted by Wang Chunyao, an amateur sports school coach in her hometown, and began her life-long journey of ice and snow.