On the afternoon of May 27, Shanghai Xinzhuang Base held the final of the second stage of the Athletics Concession Competition in the men's 110m hurdles. In this competition, Liu Xiang's young disciple Qin Weibo played a very good state, beating the Asian champion Xie Wenjun with a time of 13.28 seconds, which is also his second championship in 21 days, it is worth mentioning that in the first race of the Shanghai Concession Tournament on May 7, The 19-year-old Qin Weibo also defeated Xie Wenjun and ran a time of 13.35 seconds.
In the first race, Qin Weibo set the best result of the asian season, but just a few days later, this record was set by the young player Takemura Rakid from Japan at the Golden Grand Prix of the World Athletics Federation Intercontinental Tour in Tokyo. In the day's race, Takemura Rakide won the men's 110m hurdles in 13.34 seconds. In the just-concluded second race, Qin Weibu followed closely behind, and finally broke the Asian record this season again with his strength, while Xie Wenjun also surpassed the Japanese youngster with a time of 13.30 seconds.
As we all know, since Liu Xiang retired, the Chinese athletics team has hardly seen a talented athlete like Liu Xiang. Xie Wenjun took on the responsibility of the Chinese men's 110-meter hurdles after Liu Xiang retired, and the position of domestic hegemon was occupied by him for a long time, while at the same time, Xie Wenjun's position in the entire Asian region was almost unshakable. However, today, the post-00s young player Qin Weibo turned out to be a success with successive defeats to Xie Wenjun, proving his strength, and the Chinese athletics field may usher in a new generation of successors in the 110-meter hurdles.
Qin Weibo, like Liu Xiang, is from Shanghai. He came from a family of athletes, his mother was a basketball player and his father was a middle-distance runner. Inherited from the excellent genes of his parents, Qin Weibo has shown a higher athletic talent than his peers since he was a child. In the fourth grade of primary school, Qin Weibo was picked by Liu Xiang's enlightenment coach Fang Shuiquan and brought to the sports school for professional training.
Qin Weibo was extremely talented, participated in formal training, and soon became an outstanding athlete in the sports school. Later, Qin Weibo won the 110m hurdles and 400m hurdles in the National Youth Athletics Championships, and also attracted the attention of another coach of Liu Xiang, Sun Haiping. Soon after, Qin Weibo was taken to the Shanghai Xinzhuang Athletics Training Base and trained with Sun Haiping.
Every athlete will experience injuries to a greater or lesser extent, and Qin Weibo has not been an exception. But fortunately, he was tenacious and good at fighting, and after experiencing the trough of surgery in 2019, Qin Weibo returned to the track and field field in better shape. Although he stopped in the semi-finals at last year's Tokyo Olympics, he set a new personal best record at the Shaanxi National Games, running a time of 13.72 seconds, and now after half a year, he has improved to 13.28 seconds, the progress can be described as rapid, the potential can not be underestimated.
For Qin Weibo's performance, Sun Haiping also gave a high evaluation, he said that Qin Weibo's talent is very high, in the hurdle cadence technology is very outstanding, even surpassed the same period of Liu Xiang. Of course, the legendary record created by Liu Xiang is not so easy to break, although Qin Weibo has played a high level in several races, but in the 110-meter hurdles, the 19-year-old Liu Xiang's personal best time reached 13.12 seconds, while Qin Weibo's best time was 13.28 seconds. To know that in the athletics field, a short 0.16 seconds is a very large gap, in order to surpass the master brother Liu Xiang, Qin Weibo still has a long way to go.
However, Qin Weibo's advantage is that he is still very young, has a lot of room for growth, and from the current point of view, in China, he is already an athletics athlete who can rank among the forefront, and the future is very good. I believe that under the cultivation of coaches and their own efforts, Qin Weibo's achievements will definitely go to a higher level!