At the 2025 Indoor Track and Field World Championships, "Hurdle Sweetheart" Zhang Boya broke the 26-year-old record in Taiwan

Zhang Boya, the "hurdle sweetheart" who represented the Chinese Taipei Army in the 2024 Paris Olympics, finished in the women's 60-meter hurdles preliminaries at the 2025 Nanjing World Indoor Athletics Championships on the 23rd with 8.27 seconds.

Zhang Boya broke the 26-year-old women's 60-meter hurdles record

After the Paris Olympics last year, Zhang Boya is becoming more and more able to adapt to the rhythm of international competitions, she went to Australia in February to participate in the Adelaide Athletics Invitational Championships, won the bronze medal in 13.24 seconds, this time with coach Wang Guohui to participate in the indoor World Championships in Nanjing, the primary goal is to break Huang Meihua's 8.39 seconds women's 60m hurdles record set in 1999.

Chinese Taipei has rarely participated in the women's indoor 60m hurdles in the past, and Zhang Boya has set a new record in Taiwan this time, and the most important thing is that he hopes to continue to improve himself through the stimulation of participating in the World Championships.

After the World Championships, Wang Guohui said that Zhang Boya will continue to work hard for the 100-meter hurdles, and is expected to defend his title in the National Games first, and then fly to Osaka, Japan to participate in the Kinan Michitaka event, and make every effort to prepare for the Asian Championships in South Korea in May.