The National Track and Field Championships will kick off in Rizhao, Shandong Province on June 28. On the whole, this is the last chance for Chinese track and field athletes to compete for the right to qualify for the Olympic Games.
Now that it is an eye-catching event, the women's 100m hurdles, 2024 will finally usher in the dream showdown in the minds of track and field fans: Wu Yanni VS Lin Yuwei VS Xia Sining!
This is the first time in 2024 that all three players have played in the same tournament.
However, the trio were divided into three groups in the preliminaries. If you have to run the same race, the three players can't make mistakes in the preliminaries, play at a normal level, and reach the final at the same time.
The final at 18:45 on the evening of June 30 is the real "competition" of the three golden flowers!
Wu Yanni and Lin Yuwei have not met this season. Lin Yuwei has been training in the United States to prepare for the competition. Wu Yanni went from the 60-meter hurdles preliminaries of the World Indoor Championships all the way to the 100-meter hurdles double championship at the Japanese Track and Field Championships, and she was very busy throughout the whole process.
Although she was abused by the world's top players in the Diamond League, Wu Yanni's level was quite guaranteed in the less difficult competitions.
Wu Yanni and Lin Yuwei's strongest conversation in Asia's top women's 100m hurdles, Chinese track and field fans certainly have reason to be excited. However, judging from the performance so far this year, Wu Yanni's state cannot find an opponent in China, and only India's Yaraj can fight against it in Asia; Although Lin Yuwei participated in a lot of training camps in the United States, the effect was average.
Xia Sining was injured during winter training, and the 60-meter hurdles started without much brightness. The same goes for the 100m hurdles, which turn outside.
But after Xia Sining tore off the thigh muscle patch, his grades began to rise. At the end of May, he ran a personal best record of 13.08 seconds in the 100m hurdles in Chongqing. He then made his international debut in Japan in June after reaching the senior level.
This year, Xia Sining and Lin Yuwei have not faced each other, but they have had a confrontation with Wu Yanni in the 60-meter hurdles, of course, they were defeated.
Counting Chen Yinfeng and Chen Jiamin, the five strongest women in the women's 100m hurdles in China all appeared in this championship. But except for Wu Yanni, who may be a peerless rider, the later rankings are not easy to predict.
Theoretically, they are all Olympic qualifiers, and we should pay more attention to Lin Yuwei.
But the problem is that track and field swimming, which is a basic event, is dominated by absolute results, and it is really not good to say much if there are no results.
Lin Yuwei has run a record of 13.00 seconds this year, still in a strong situation of close to two meters per second downwind. This year's second best result was a 13.26 seconds run at near-zero wind speed.
This is the reason why the rankings mentioned above in this article are not easy to predict. Chen Yinfeng and Chen Jiamin also have a performance of 13.2 seconds now. And Xia Sining has to prove that his 13.08 seconds is not accidental.
Zhang Yu, a senior player in the women's 100m hurdles, has created two records with considerable strength in this event: first, the national record of 12.64 seconds; The second is the semi-finals of the Olympic Games, ranking 11th overall.
This is the goal that Wu Yanni and Lin Yuwei will strive for a breakthrough this year. Are they ready? The National Championship is proof first!