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Exploring new hope beneath more than 600 medals
The Chinese track and field team sent 62 athletes to the Asian Athletics Championships held May 27–31 in Gumi, South Korea, with both the number of events and the size of the delegation exceeding previous editions and the team's average age just 24. On the first competition day, China won 5 golds and 2 silvers, bringing its total Asian Championships medal count since first competing in 1979 to 693. After a trough in world championships during the Paris Olympic cycle, young athletes such as Chen Yujie and Liu Junxi set records in multiple 2025-season events, and this Asian Championships became the first time this young team traveled abroad as a full squad for a continental championships.
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