All-field race》Ge Wu Yanming’s 200M tied for the second fastest time in the past and broke the conference record set by Yang Junhan

Ge Wu Yanming (middle) (file photo, photo by reporter Chen Zhiqu)

[Reporter Wu Mengru/Comprehensive Report] Taiwan's fast-legged Wu Yanming won the gold medal in the men's 200m final of the 115th National Track and Field Championships today with a personal best of 20.58 seconds. At the same time, he also sent the conference record of 20.60 seconds set by Yang Junhan in 2022 into history.

Ge Wu Yanming made a sensation in the 2023 Chengdu Universiade. He ran a career-best 20.58 seconds in the 200 meters, ranking second in the past. This time he passed the challenges of the preliminaries and semi-finals at the Nagoya Asian Games and successfully advanced to the finals. However, due to injuries, his performance was not as good as expected, finishing in 7th place with a time of 21.02 seconds.

After the Asian Games, Ge Wu Yanming, who represents Taipei City, chose to continue competing in the all-field competition this week to gain points to advance to next year's World Championships. He ran 21.18 seconds in the preliminaries this morning and advanced to the first place in the group. In the afternoon finals, he accelerated to a time of 20.58 seconds to win the gold medal. As for Taoyuan City's Hsieh Cheng-kui, he won the silver medal in 21.07 seconds, and Taoyuan City's Zhong Zhixiang won the bronze medal in 21.08 seconds.