On Monday evening at China’s Nationwide Video games in Guangzhou, a 16-year-old sprinter made historical past within the girls’s 100m, breaking a document that had stood since 1997.
Yujie Chenborn in 2008, quietly produced the fourth-fastest U18 100m time in historical past, operating 11.10 seconds (+0.7 m/s) to win nationwide gold. Her efficiency shattered the Chinese language and Asian U20 document of 11.17 seconds, a document that had stood for 28 years.
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Chen dominated the race from the gun, beating the silver and bronze medallists by almost three-tenths of a second. She’s going to pursue the dash double on Wednesday on the Nationwide Video games, additionally competing within the girls’s 200m occasion.
Earlier this 12 months, Chen was the youngest feminine athlete to compete on the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, the place she ran the 200m heats and was on China’s girls’s 4x100m relay squad.
Just one U18 feminine athlete in historical past has damaged the 11-second barrier: American sprinter Candace Hill. She ran 10.98 seconds at 16, which nonetheless stands as her private finest to this present day. Jamaican Olympians Briana Williams and Tina Clayton (newly topped world 100m silver medallist) are the one different U18 athletes to have run quicker than Chen.
Sixteen-year-old sprinter Chen Yujie from China’s Zhejiang gained the ladies’s 100m with a brand new Asian U20 document, whereas Gong Debin of Fujian broke the lads’s 400m hurdles nationwide document on the fifteenth Nationwide Video games in Guangzhou on Monday https://t.co/KaMWSLukcY pic.twitter.com/RuZbE5TUFe
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China’s Nationwide Video games function the nation’s home model of the Olympic Video games, which is a premier multisport occasion held each 4 years. The Video games showcase the very best athletes from throughout China and have round 14,000 athletes throughout 34 sports activities and 419 occasions.
