World Athletics Federation Continental Tour Osaka Station, Chinese player Wu Yanni competed in the women's 100m hurdles event, Wu Yanni faced 8 Japanese masters in the preliminaries, she hit a good score of 12.91 seconds, ranked first in the group and first in the preliminaries, and won the game by pulling away other players in multiple positions. The wind speed in this race was +0.7m per second, for which Wu Yanni's result was valid.
12.91 seconds to create Wu Yanni's personal best this season, the previous 13.04 seconds, and this is also the first time that Wu Yanni has opened 13 seconds this season, fulfilling her previous promise, she once said in Suzhou that she is now open 13 seconds is very easy. On the other hand, Wu Yanni's 12.91 seconds also allowed her to surpass the strongest competitor in China, Lin Yuwei, whose best time this season was 12.97 seconds, and Lin Yuwei also had a time of 12.83 seconds, but it was super wind speed, and the result was not counted.
Wu Yanni is gradually recovering from the previous Diamond League Xiamen and Suzhou stations full of black athletes, most of the players in the Osaka station of the Intercontinental Tour this time are of yellow race, Wu Yanni will not be at a disadvantage in terms of explosiveness and physical fitness. In the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, Wu Yanni ran a time of 12.77 seconds and won the second place.
Wu Yanni will play the final on the afternoon of May 12, and her opponents are not weak, among which Mako Fukube holds the Japanese national record with a time of 12.73 seconds, which is faster than Wu Yanni's best time of 12.76 seconds, so Wu Yanni needs to blast a better time than 12.91 seconds in the final to have a chance to win the championship.
It is worth mentioning that even if Wu Yanni is the first in Asia, it is not enough, her ultimate goal is to hit the women's 100m hurdles Olympic final, that is, to become the top eight in the Olympics, this goal is very difficult to achieve, and Wu Yanni needs to strive to open the time of 12.60 seconds. The previous two gold medals in the women's 100m hurdles in Xiamen and Suzhou were 12.45 seconds and 12.63 seconds, which is almost the minimum threshold for reaching the Olympic final, and Wu Yanni needs to strive to reach this level.
It is very difficult for yellow sprinters to enter the Olympic finals in the sprint event, and only Liu Xiang and Su Bingtian have done it in history, so it can be said that Wu Yanni's ambition is ambitious, and she is expected to continue to improve and strive to achieve the goal of entering the Olympic finals to make history!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)