After Xu Lijia broke through the zero medal forChina’s Olympic sailing history, Yin Jian, theSichuangirl created a history record in our history. She caught the first Olympic gold medal forChina, ahead ofItalyveteran Alessandra Sensini one points.

    “Thanks Qingdao, Thanks to the beautiful waters here. They bring the good luck to me.” Yin cried aloud to the spectators after she won.

    Four years ago in Athens Olympics, because of the bad gust, TeamChinalost their first sailing gold. Nowadays Yin signed, “For this gold, I tried and continued. It’s not a piece of cake indeed.”

    Before that time, TeamChinajust got two silver gold medals in the sailing history, one was caught by Zhang Xiaodong in 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the other belonged to Yin in 2004 Athens Olympics.

    In this Olympics, Yin brought her potentials into full play. She got three No. 1 and two No. 3 in the first five races, and ranked No. 1 overall. Though Yin had some equable in the next races, which gave Sensini a chance to catch up with in the 8^thand 9^thraces, Yin still got the first place again by the overwhelming majority in the 10^thrace, and she entered the medal race ahead of the 2^ndplace 5 score.

    According to the competition situation, the medal race doubles the scores. That means, if Yin enters the first three position, the gold medal belongs to her. So Yin took a conservative strategy, and her rival is Sensini of Italy. Because the sailing line did not benefit Yin at first, she dropped the 5^thplace when circling the 2^ndmark, while Sensini ascended to No. 1 at the 3^rdmark. This is an anxious time for Yin. But the surprise happened. Marina Alabau ofSpain, ranked No. 2 at that time and Bryony Shaw at 3^rdplace broke the rules. Grasping this rarely opportunity Yin surpassed Marina of Spain and then made a push for the prior Olha Maslivets ofUkraine. At the end of the race Yin reached the 3^rdplace finally, which means the first Olympic sailing gold medal ofChinasuccessful obtained.

    And another medal race of the RS:X men was also fought yesterday. Chan King Kam ofHong Kongscored 1^st, but because of his lower score of last races, his overall is ranked 6^th. Wang Aichen ofChinafinished 7^th. The last race of Tornado and Star classes were also held yesterday.