Jia Zongyang Wiki: 5 Facts To Know About 2018 Olympics Silver Medalist Skier

Jia Zongyang was born on March 1, 1991. He is a Chinese aerial skier. He represented China at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Olympic Winter Games, winning a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. He won a gold medal at the Asian Games in 2011 in Astana-Almaty. His career growth has been remarkable since then. Here are some five personal details about the skier: 1. Zongyang loves listening to music in his spare time. 2. The athlete has done his education from the Shenyang Sport University, People's Republic of China. 3. He can speak Mandarin language and has trained in the club Shenyang Sport University under coach, Ji Dong. 4. Zongyang made his World Cup Debut in 2008. 5. An injury caused him to miss a national training camp in April 2015. In 2010, he injured his right ankle. Zongyang took up the sport at age 12 in Shenyang, People's Republic of China. He initially began doing gymnastics, before later taking up freestyle skiing. He states his greatest influence in life to be his parents. In 2010, he was named an Elite Athlete by the State General Administration of Sport in People's Republic of China. Over the last several seasons, Jia Zongyang has emerged as the strongest of a strong bunch of athletes. Zongyang had made his World Cup debut on home soil at Adventure Mountain, CHN, in 2008. A year later, also on home soil, he won both his first podium and his first victory in Changchun. Since then, Zongyang has displayed noteworthy consistency, by placing outside of the top 10 in only nine out of 25 career World Cup starts, and also managed to score nine victories and 13 podiums in that time. He did have some struggle towards the end of last season, he still managed to finish well outside of the top 10 in his last three events. His remarkable performance at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics where he won the bronze medal proved that when he is on his game of freestyle skiing, and that he is still one of the top two or three aerialists in the world.

The net worth of the skier is currently unavailable.

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