Report28 Jun 2016


Shi breaks Asian U20 long jump record at Chinese Junior Championships

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Long jumper in action (© Getty Images)

China’s depth in the men’s long jump continues to go from strength to strength as Shi Yuhao sailed out to an Asian U20 record of 8.30m at the Chinese Junior Championships in Ordos, which concluded on Tuesday (28).

Shi, who reached the finals of both the long jump and triple jump at last year’s IAAF World Youth Championships, went to Ordos with a PB of 8.02m, which he set last month. After a wind-assisted 8.18m in round two, he equalled his lifetime best in the third round and then bettered it with 8.15m.

The wind then switched and he leapt 8.13m into a -1.6m/s headwind in the fifth round, but the conditions changed again for his final attempt as he landed at 8.30m (1.3m/s) with the final jump of the competition.

Not only was his jump an Asian U20 record, it is also a world age-17 best and puts him at third on the world U20 all-time list, just five centimetres shy of Sergey Morgunov’s world U20 record of 8.35m.

Shi’s mark added five centimetres to the Asian U20 record set last year by Wang Jianan before going on to take the bronze medal at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015.

Asian junior champion Zhong Peifeng also produced the best jump of his life. The youth Olympic bronze medallist leapt 8.11m to move to fifth on the Chinese U20 all-time list and fourth on this year’s world U20 list.

The best performances of the three-day championships came in the horizontal jumps. Chen Liwen won the women’s long jump with a PB of 6.41m to finish 19 centimetres ahead of Chen Ting. The positions were reversed in the triple jump one day later as Chen Ting produced a PB of 13.54m, beating Chen Liwen by 18 centimetres.

Wu Yuang was the top performer on the track. He took exactly one second off his personal best to win the 400m in 46.33.

Jon Mulkeen for the IAAF