Recently, in the men's 60-meter hurdles competition of the 2025 National Indoor Track and Field Grand Prix (2nd station) held in Xi'an, Liu Junqian from the School of Physical Education of Yangzhou University won the championship with a time of 7.53 seconds. Liu's result met the criteria for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing next month. Liu Junqian has become the only player in China to meet the standard, which is also Liu Junqian's two consecutive World Championships standards.

It is worth noting that the result of 7.53 seconds also made Liu Junqian the second person in the domestic 60-meter hurdles event after Liu Xiang.Liu Junqian's time of 7.53 seconds is only 0.12 seconds away from Liu Xiang's best time of 7.41 seconds. It is only 0.07 seconds away from Liu Xiang's world championship time of 7.46 seconds.In Asia, Liu Junqian's time of 7.53 seconds can also rank third in the best time in history.

Not only is the results very close to the former Liu Xiang, but the 21-year-old Liu Junqian also looks similar to Liu Xiang from some angles, so netizens ridiculed "suspected Liu Xiang's account login in from another place". Many netizens hotly discussed: "The Chinese men's hurdles finally have a successor!" "After waiting for so many years, the person closest to Liu Xiang finally appeared!" ”

Born on December 11, 2003, Liu Junqian is from Jiangsu, and he was selected by his primary school physical education teacher to join the school track and field team when he was in the third grade, and has since embarked on the track and field road. After graduating from primary school, Liu Junqian was recommended to enter Taizhou Sports School, focusing on 110-meter hurdles, and is now a member of the Jiangsu track and field team.

In 2023, Liu Junqian has won the second place in the 110-meter hurdles in the first National Student (Youth) Games, the first place in the 110-meter hurdles in the National University Athletics Championships and breaking the record, and the first place in the 110-meter hurdles in the National Track and Field Grand Prix (fourth station).

In January 2024, he won the men's 60m hurdles at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Astana Station. At last summer's Paris Olympics, Liu Junqian was selected for the competition list and qualified for the men's 110m hurdles event. In September last year, Liu Junqian won the second place in the men's 110-meter hurdles at the National Track and Field Championships.