Competing with Wu Yanni, "Hurdle Sweetheart" Zhang Boya missed the medal at the 2025 Track and Field Asian Championships

Chinese Taipei's "hurdle sweetheart" Zhang Boya was caught between Japan and China for the first time in the women's 100-meter hurdles final of the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea on the 29th local time, but unfortunately failed to play his best and finished in 13.42 seconds, ranking 6th and missing the medal for the Chinese Taipei team.

Zhang Boya (right) competed with China's Wu Yanni and finished sixth in the final place

The 22-year-old Zhang Boya participated in the Asian Championships for the first time last time, and he lacked experience in the competition at that time, and he was so nervous that he couldn't do it. After the Asian Championships, the Chengdu World Universiade, the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Paris Olympics, Zhang Boya is now more calm. On the 29th, a heavy thunderstorm fell in Gumi, and the schedule was delayed for 2 hours before it started, Zhang Boya believes that he may have been quite nervous in the past, but now he can bravely face any unexpected situation.

The women's 100 span missed the medal. Zhang Boya was in the 5th lane in the final, next to the 4th lane for the Japanese star Tanaka Yumi, and the 6th lane was the Chinese good player Wu Yanni, Zhang Boya originally expected to break through the best of 13.11 seconds by competing with the two famous players, but unfortunately it backfired. Coach Wang Guohui revealed that Zhang Boya has only been practicing hurdles for 3 years, and his experience points still need to be improved. Zhang Boya hopes to learn from the experience of this Asian Championships, make herself stronger, and continue to seek to break personal bests, and even the whole Taiwan record.

In the men's 110m hurdles, Chinese Taipei's Lin Yikai, who participated for the first time in his career, finished sixth in 13.76 seconds.