Topping the Asian No. 1 for the first time, Chinese women's hurdles star Wu Yanni: The opponents are all letting go

"The greater the difficulty, the more motivated, I hope the opponent will let the horse come!" This is the bold statement made by Chinese women's hurdles star Wu Yanni after she became the No. 1 Asian player in the world rankings.

Wu Yanni is proud of her world ranking as No. 1 in Asia, and she hopes that her opponents will let her opponents come and compete together.

World Athletics has updated the latest world rankings a few days ago, and Wu Yanni surpassed Japan's Yumi Tanaka in the women's hurdles event with 1258 points to reach the top of Asia for the first time. The breakthrough stems from her performance at the recently concluded 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, where she set a new personal record of 8.05 seconds in the women's 60m hurdles heats and a national record of 8.01 seconds in the semifinals. Although Wu Yanni ranked third in the group in the semi-finals and missed the final, this result broke the national record that had been in the dust for 11 years.

In the top 10 of the Asian rankings, Wu Yanni is ranked first, along with six Japanese players, two Indian players and one Hong Kong player. In this regard, Wu Yanni wrote: "It is actually difficult to fight alone, but I just want to say that the greater the difficulty, the more motivated. I hope the opponents will let the horses come and we will have a good game together. ”