The 2025 Track and Field Asian Championships will start on the 27th, and Lin Yutang, who won the men's long jump gold medal last year, will defend his title

The 2025 Asian Athletics Championships will ignite the war in Gumi, South Korea on the 27th local time, and the Chinese Taipei team will send a total of 31 athletes to participate in this year, and Lin Yutang, who won the men's long jump gold medal last year, will seek to defend his title.

Lin Yutang warmed up at the warm-up field on the 26th, and this Asian Championships will seek two consecutive hegemony in the men's long jump.

A total of 39 countries (regions) participated in this year's Asian Championships in Athletics, with more than 750 athletes coming to compete, and the Chinese Taipei team was led by Yang Junhan, Zheng Zhaocun, Lin Yutang and other good players, all three of whom had gold medals in the Asian Championships. Among them, Lin Yutang won the gold medal at the last Asian Championships in Thailand by breaking the Taiwan record of 8.40 meters, and won the ticket to the 2023 World Championships in one fell swoop. He won gold in Kagoshima, Japan, in February, and won a season best of 7.92m in the Youth Cup.

Lin Yutang retired from the men's 100m semifinals due to a left thigh injury at the Taiwan University Games in early May, and gave up participating in the Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo. He revealed that the current injury is fine, because the Grand Prix competition time is quite close to the Asian Championships, so he finally gave up the Grand Prix and concentrated on the Asian Championships.

Lin Yutang went to the warm-up field on the 25th to move his body and adapt to the South Korean venue, he said that the venue and weather here are really good, and on the 26th, he focused on heavy training, and let himself slowly enter the game step by step. As for the men's long jump qualifying tournament will appear on the morning of the 29th, in addition to Lin Yutang, Lin Jiaxing, who won gold at this year's Taiwan University Games, also participated, and both good players will fight hard to advance to the finals first.