Taiwanese hurdlers Lin Zhongwei and Zhong Xinru advance to the Asian Games finals

Zhong Xinru. (File photo)

[Reporter Wu Mengru/Nagoya Report] Taiwanese athlete Lin Zhongwei advanced to the finals in the men's 400-meter hurdles preliminaries of the Asian Games in Nagoya today with a time of 49.10 seconds and the first place in the group. Chen Jianrong advanced to the finals with the second place in the group.

The 22-year-old Lin Zhongwei is a highly anticipated hurdler. He ran a personal best of 48.77 seconds at the Kinan Michitaka Memorial Track and Field Championships in Osaka, Japan in May this year, ranking third in the history. This time he was ranked in the first group and lane 3 of the Asian Games. He was the fastest in the group and ranked second overall. Chen Jianrong was ranked in the third group and lane 5. He advanced to the finals with a time of 50.16 seconds, second in the group.

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In addition, Zhong Xinru only won the gold medal at the 2026 Asian U23 Track and Field Championships in July with a personal record-breaking time of 57.41 seconds. Today, she was ranked in the second group of the Asian Games. Stimulated by many experts, she also ran a new personal best of 56.57 seconds in the women's 400-meter hurdles preliminaries, and took advantage of the situation to advance to the fourth place in the group. Another female hurdler, Luo Peilin, ran 58.36 seconds and ranked fifth in her group, missing the chance to advance.