Lin Yikai reached the final of the men's 110m hurdles at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships and qualified for next year's Asian Games

On the 28th local time, Chinese Taipei hurdler Lin Yikai ran 13.63 seconds in the men's 110-meter hurdles preliminaries of the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, to advance to the final tomorrow with the third place in the group, and Lin Yikai is also the second Chinese Taipei track and field athlete to qualify for the Asian Games in Nagoya next year after Yu Yaqian.

Chinese Taipei hurdler Lin Yikai (center) and Chinese player Qin Weibo (right)

From the 27th to June 15 next year, Yu Yaqian won the bronze medal in the women's hammer throw with 64.25 meters on the 27th, crossing the 63-meter entry standard and becoming the first Chinese Taipei track and field athlete to qualify for the Nagoya Asian Games.

Lin Yikai was in the same group as the Japanese mixed-race Muratakerashid and China's Qin Weibo in the preliminaries today, Lin Yikai finally ranked third in the group with 13.63 seconds and qualified for the final, while Muratake, who had a career-best of 13.04 seconds, led the group with 13.33 seconds.

With a standard of 13.65 seconds in the 110m hurdles at the Nagoya Asian Games, Lin Yikai successfully won the Asian Games ticket, which will be his first time on the Asian Games stage in his career.