On May 12, Beijing time, the 2024 11th Kinan Province Takashi Memorial Tournament in Japan was held at Nagai Yanmar Stadium, a track and field field in Nagai, Osaka. In the just-concluded women's 100m hurdles preliminaries, Wu Yanni easily won the first place in the third group with a time of 12.91 seconds (+0.7). The women's 100m hurdles final will start at 13:35 Beijing time today.
In March this year, Wu Yanni broke her personal best four times in a month in the indoor season, first running 8.12 seconds in the 60m hurdles at the Glasgow Indoor World Championships on March 3, and then running 8.11 seconds, 8.10 seconds and 8.06 seconds in Jinan and Tianjin in China, and the 8.06 seconds time was also the best time in Asia this season in the women's 60m hurdles.
After entering the outdoor season in April, Wu Yanni won the opportunity to compete in Xiamen and Suzhou of the Diamond League, where she ran 13.04 seconds to rank 10th in Xiamen and 8th in Suzhou with a time of 13.15 seconds, both times from the bottom. Lin Yuwei, who trains in the United States, ran 12 Mao 97 (+1.8) in Gainesville, USA on April 13, becoming the first Asian athlete to break the 13-second barrier this season and led Asia for a time. India's Yaraj, a silver medallist at last year's Asian Games in Hangzhou, ran 12.87 seconds (+0.9) in Ficht, the Netherlands, on May 9 local time, ranking first in the Asian season.
The women's 100m hurdles are divided into two preliminaries, and the preliminaries are divided into three groups, with the top two teams in each group and the other two best results to reach the final. In the first group, there are Japanese national record holder (12.73 seconds) Mako Fukube, Asian Games third runner-up Yumi Tanaka, and Chinese Taipei's Zhang Boya, in the second group, Japanese stars Asuka Terada and Chisato Kiyoyama, and in the third group, Japan's Yuki Omatsu (12.97 seconds), China's Wu Yanni (12.76 seconds), and Australia's Danielle (13.01 seconds).
In the first group of the preliminaries, Yumi Tanaka ran 12.94 seconds (-0.7) to rank first, Mako Fukube ranked second in 13.09 seconds (-0.7), and Zhang Boya was fourth in the group in 13.41 seconds. Asuka Terada won the first place in the second group of the preliminaries in 13.10 seconds, Aika Shibata, who was born in 2001, was second in the group in 13.19 seconds, and Chisato Kiyoyama was third in 13.23 seconds. In the third group, Wu Yanni easily won the first place in 12.91 seconds, and Australia's Danielle won the second place in the group in 13.07 seconds.