"Hurdle sweetheart" Zhang Boya reached the women's 100-meter hurdles final of the 2025 Athletics Asian Championships with the best of the season

Chinese Taipei's "hurdle sweetheart" Zhang Boya ran 13.17 seconds in the women's 100m hurdles preliminaries of the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea on the 28th to create the best of the season, ranking second in the group and fourth among all players, advancing to tomorrow's final, hoping to break the career best of 13.11 seconds in the final, and even get on the podium.

Chinese Taipei's "hurdle sweetheart" Zhang Boya

The 22-year-old Chang Boya's best of the season was 13.24 seconds at the Australian International Race in February, and she won gold in 13.14 seconds at the National University Games at the beginning of the month, although this time was not counted due to excessive wind speed. Zhang Boya participated in the last Asian Championships in Thailand for the first time, and finished 7th at that time, and then won the 4th place in the Hangzhou Asian Games, and also participated in the Paris Olympics last year.

The top 3 in the group will be selected in this preliminaries, and the top 2 will be selected to advance to the finals. Zhang Boya was in the same group as China's Liu Jingyang and Indonesia's 21-year-old Dina Aulia in the preliminaries, Zhang Boya advanced in 13.17 seconds, Olia won the first place with a personal best of 13.11 seconds, and Liu Jingyang won in 13.25 seconds. As for the fastest in the preliminaries, the fastest is 12.89 seconds for Japanese good player Yumi Tanaka, Chinese star Wu Yanni is second in 13.07 seconds, and Zhang Boya is ranked fourth.

In addition, from the 27th to June 15 next year, Zhang Boya easily exceeded the threshold of 13.45 seconds and will appear on the Asian Games stage for the second time in his career.