Wen Yongyi of China shown at the 15th Asian Games at Khalifa Stadium in Doha (© AFP / Getty Images)
20yearold Wen Yongyi bettered his own 60m national record in the second indoor meet of the season in Beijing (20 / 21 March).
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The Chinese indoor campaign concluded with Wen running in the first of two 'finals' lowering the old record of 6.61 seconds, co-held by Hu Kai, by 0.02 seconds down to 6.59. Wen set his 100m personal best last season in May with a 10.30 win in Bangkok and ended the season with a seventh place finish at the Asian Games.
The winner of the second 'final' race Du Bing, also went under the old record winning in 6.60, with Zhang Peimeng finishing second in 6.63.
In the 60m Hurdles Shi Dongpeng recorded another win in 7.73 just edging Ji Wei, who set a personal best of 7.75.
19-year-old World Junior Championships silver medallist Yang Yansheng opened his season with a 5.15m win in the Pole Vault. 17-year-old Long Jump star Zhang Xiaoyi suffered a rare loss to Yu Zhenwei who tied his personal best with 7.87m against Zhang’s 7.86m result.
National indoor record holder Gu Junjie (16.96m in 2005) reached his best result for two years winning the Triple Jump with a 16.84m distance.
Zhu Hengjun won the Heptathlon with a total of 5554 before Guo Weizhao setting the national junior indoor record with 5502 points (senior implements). National record holder in Decathlon and indoor Heptathlon and only Chinese to exceed 8000 points in decathlon, Qi Haifeng, was surprisingly far away from his best form and could only finish fourth with 5376 points.
WOMEN
In the women’s events 17-year-old Zheng Xingyuan set Asian junior indoor record with her 1.92m winning High Jump. He Yanhong and 18-year-old Qiao Yanrui tied for second with a personal best of 1.87m for both. Zhang Yingzhu (please note that the name is Zhang and not Zhao as previously reported) added another Pole Vault win with an impressive 4.40m result.
In the women’s Shot Put 16-year-old super star Gong Lijiao continued her strong winter form. Gong added another win with a 18.73m toss winning before last year’s two top Chinese, Li Meiju second at 18.56m and Li Ling third with a personal best of 18.44m. Another junior, 18-year-old Liu Xiangrong took the fourth place with a big personal best of 17.89m.
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