In the 2025 Athletics Asian Championships, Lin Yutang jumped 8.20 meters and was reversed, but he is still confident in next year's Asian Games

Lin Yutang, the record holder in Taiwan, once jumped to the lead with 8.20 meters in the men's long jump final of the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships on the 30th, but the upcoming gold medal was finally snatched away by Chinese good player Shu Heng with a difference of 2 centimeters, and he missed the opportunity to become the first Chinese Taipei player to successfully defend his title at the Asian Championships, but this jump once again proved his strength, and he hopes to remember the feeling of flying this time and regain face at the Nagoya Asian Games next year.

Lin Yutang missed the Asian Championships long jump gold medal

The Chinese Taipei team won a total of 3 medals on the 30th, in addition to Lin Yutang winning silver, the heptathlon women's Chen Caijuan and the women's shot put rookie Jiang Jingyuan both won bronze medals. The 25-year-old Lin Yutang's performance in the first three jumps of the final was mediocre, but he gradually grasped the feeling, and the fourth jump readjusted his pace to hand over 8.20 meters, surpassing Shu Heng's 8.16 meters and Japan's Yamaura Keidou 8.08 meters in one fell swoop, taking the lead. Unexpectedly, Shu Heng jumped 8.22 meters in the last jump, shattering Lin Yutang's dream of defending his title. In the last Asian Championships, Lin Yutang won the gold with a reversal of 8.40 meters that broke the whole Taiwan record, but this time it was overturned, he said with a wry smile, "This seems to be the first time in my career that I have been reversed!" ”

Lin Yutang received the silver medal and was still full of confidence in the Nagoya Asian Games

Even if the title defense failed, Lin Yutang is still very happy, after all, after winning the gold last year, the state has been up and down in the past two years, and now he has delivered good results, proving that he is still competitive, he revealed, "This result represents the integration of Gu Ronghui and Cai Yida's two coaches' schedules, I will remember this feeling, continue to make the results stable, and this time the loss will be recovered in the Asian Games next year." Another Chinese Taipei player, Lin Jiaxing, jumped 7.73 meters and finished eighth in the Asian Championships for two consecutive years.