2025 Track and Field Asian Championships "Hurdle Sweetheart" Zhang Boya faced two masters and finally finished sixth

On the 29th local time, Chinese Taipei's "hurdle sweetheart" Zhang Boya finished in the women's 100-meter hurdles final of the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, in 13.42 seconds and finished 6th, missing the medal for the Chinese Taipei team.

Chinese Taipei's "hurdle sweetheart" Zhang Boya (right)

The 22-year-old Zhang Boya participated in the Asian Championships for the first time last time, when he had only focused on training hurdles for one year, and he had little experience in competitions, so he was too nervous to do it. Zhang Boya has experienced the baptism of the last Asian Championships, the Chengdu World Universiade, the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Paris Olympics, and now she is more calm. She ran 13.17 seconds in the preliminaries on the 28th to set a season's best, finishing second in her group and fourth among all competitors and advancing to the final.

Chinese Taipei's "hurdle sweetheart" Zhang Boya

The women's 100m hurdles final was originally scheduled to start at 7:35 a.m., but due to thunderstorms, it was postponed to 9:20 a.m. Zhang Boya was also affected, but she believes that now she will not be timid, but can face more emergencies more bravely.

Chinese Taipei's "hurdle sweetheart" Zhang Boya

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Boya was in the 5th lane of the final, next to the Japanese star Yumi Tanaka and the Chinese good player Wu Yanni, she was also quite looking forward to competing with these two top Asian masters, but unfortunately she lost her rhythm behind her and failed to rewrite the best, but she still learned from experience and will continue to challenge to break her career best of 13.11 seconds.