Lin Yuwei (born 2 May 1999) is a Chinese

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who competes in the

100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten Hurdling, hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first h ...

. In 2023, she won the gold medal for the 100m hurdles event at the

2022 Asian Games The 2022 Asian Games (), officially known as the 19th Asian Games (), also known as Hangzhou 2022, ( zh, c=杭州2022, p=Hángzhōu Èr líng èr èr), will be a multi-sport event celebrated in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Hangzhou will be the t ...

, in

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Career

Born in

Youxi County Youxi () is a county of central Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Sanming Sanming (, Foochow Romanized: Săng-mìng), also known as Minzhong (), is a prefecture-level city in western Fujian province, ...

, Lin was first selected for the prestigious Fujian Provincial Team in November 2014. She won the 100m and 200m at the Fujian Provincial Games in 2014. She would go on to finish runner-up in the

at the 2018 National Youth Championship. She then won the 100m hurdles title at the National University Games in 2019. She won gold at the National Games in 2021, running a personal best time of 12.85 seconds for the 100m hurdles. She won gold in the 60m hurdles championship at the 2023 National Indoor Track and Field Championships. She then had a second place finish in the 100m hurdles at the National Track and Field Championship in 2023, clocking a time of 12.97 seconds Lin won gold at the

, running a time of 12.74 seconds for the 100 metres hurdles.

Personal life

Her younger sister Lin Yuxi has also competed in athletics at national level.

References

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