| Wu Yanni | |
| Native Name: | 吴艳妮 |
| Coach: | 季荣强 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Sport: | Running |
| Event: | 100 m hurdles |
| Birth Date: | 1997 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Fushun County, Sichuan, China |
| Country: | China |
| Pb: | 60m hurdles: 8.11 (Shandong, 2024) 100m: 12.11 (Chongqing, 2022) 100m hurdles: 12.74 (Rizhao, 2024) |
Wu Yanni (; born 28 July 1997) is a Chinese track and field athlete. She is a multiple time Chinese national champion in the 100 metres hurdles.[1]
Wu was born in Zigong, a city in southern Sichuan, she started her hurdling career in Neijiang before moving to study at Beijing Sports University.[2]
On 15 September 2016, while representing Sichuan team in the women's 100 m hurdles at the 2016 National Track and Field Championships, she won third place in 13.58 seconds. On 4 September, at the 13th National Games held in Tianjin, she won third place in 13.36 seconds.[3] [4] She won the Chinese national title in the 100 metres hurdles in 2023. She qualified for the final of the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships, held in Bangkok, but was disqualified in the final due to a false start.[5] Yanni won silver in the 100m women’s hurdles in the World University Games in Chengdu in August 2023, running a personal best time in the semi finals of 12.85 seconds, before breaking it again later that day in the final, where she clocked a time of 12.76 seconds.[6] [7]
During the women's 100-meter hurdles final of track and field at the 2022 Asian Games, Wu was disqualified for her false start.[8]
She was selected for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow to compete in the women's 60 metres hurdles, where she ran a personal best time of 8.12 seconds.[9]
She won the 100m hurdles at the World Continental Tour Gold event in Tokyo on 19 May 2024.[10] [11] She set a new personal best of 12.74 seconds in the 100m hurdles to win the Chinese Athletics Championships in June 2024.[12] She was named in the Chinese team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[13]
She has been nicknamed “China’s goddess of track and field” and attracted social media attention due to her outgoing personality and body tattoos, which she has said are a symbol of her self confidence.[14]