On May 14, Beijing time, the 2024 Tokyo Athletics Gold Grand Prix released the official athlete participation information, and Chinese star Wu Yanni will participate in the women's 100m race at this stop. Nine athletes competed in the women's 100m hurdles, with all of them setting personal bests under 13 seconds and winning with a one-shot victory, making this weekend's race much higher than last week's Osaka event. The host of this tournament, the Japanese team, will play to the fullest, with Hazura Kitaguchi, Nozomi Tanaka, Sani Brown, and Ryohei Arai all participating.
The women's 100m hurdles, which Chinese netizens are most concerned about, will start at 14:50 Beijing time on May 19. Japan occupies five of the nine spots: Mako Fukube (12.73 seconds), Asuka Terada (12.86 seconds), Aoki Masami (12.86 seconds), Yumi Tanaka (12.89 seconds) and Yuki Omatsu (12.97 seconds). In last weekend's Kinan Province Taka Memorial Race, Wu Yanni won the championship in 12.86 seconds (+0.2) ahead of Mako Fukube, Asuka Terada, and Yuki Omatsu.
In addition to Wu Yanni of the Chinese team, the other three foreign athletes are Harrison (12.74 seconds) from Canada, 28-year-old Hannah Jones (12.91 seconds) from Australia, and 31-year-old Kerekesh (12.97 seconds) from Hungary. Wu Yanni, who clocked a personal best of 12.76 seconds, will be aiming for a new personal high at the Tokyo National Stadium on Sunday.
In the men's 100 meters of this station, Japanese mixed-race flyer Sani Brown led the race, and there were also Ryuichiro Sakai, Daiki Tochida, Wanghiro Higashida and others. Chinese Taipei flyer Yang Junhan will compete with Shota Iizuka and Uzawa Feiyu for the men's 200m championship. Muratake-Rashid, Takayama Junno and others will compete in the men's 110m hurdles.
In the men's high jump, South Korea's Woo Sang-hyuk and China's Wang Zhen will participate. Men's long jump world champion Wang Jiannan will compete against Yuki Hashioka and Hibiki Tsuna, while Japan's Ryohei Arai will compete in the men's javelin competition. Last year's Budapest World Championships champion Hazel Beikou will also appear in this event, and China's women's javelin post-00 newcomer Dai Qianqian will attack her.