15-year-old Yan Ziyi of China introduced herself into the Worldwide highlight by setting a brand new girls’s javelin throw World Junior File (U20) on the Nationwide Athletics Grand Prix 2 assembly on Sunday. Ziyi smashed a exceptional throw of 64.28m. Nonetheless, she narrowly missed the Chinese language Nationwide File by 0.06m. 

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Yan Ziyi, who will have fun her sixteenth birthday in Could, surpassed the earlier document of Cuba’s Yulenmis Aguilar, set in August 2015. As well as, her throw additionally surpassed the unratified mark of 63.96m by Elina Tzengko of Greece in August 2020.

Yan Ziyi beat three-time World Championships Lu Huihui, who threw 61.95m, to clinch the gold medal. She surpassed the 60m in 4 of her 5 competitions this 12 months. Together with her newest throw, she went previous her earlier private and season-best mark of 62.23m set in Chengdu at the beginning of this month. On Sunday, she added one other two meters to that mark to enhance her throw.

Ziyi kicked of the Nationwide Athletics Grand Prix 2 with a robust throw of 60.83m on her first try and adopted it with 59.53m on her second try. Regardless of fouling within the subsequent three rounds Ziyi ended the sequence on a excessive, launching the implement 64.28m to win the competitors, set a world lead and break the U20 document. 

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To position Ziyi’s document into perspective, it have to be informed that India’s Annu Rani gained the Asian Video games gold medal in Hangzhou final 12 months with a 69.92m throw, whereas the Chinese language nationwide document stands at 64.34m held by Huihui achieved in Could 2020.