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There are athletes competing at the highest level in history, and the women's 100m hurdles show unprecedented excitement. Hitomi Nakajima is the late blooming new heroine who is 30 years old this year.
When she was in junior high school, she won the All-Japan Junior High School Championships, but in high school, she contracted stress gastroenteritis due to pressure and missed the Inter-High School Championships. Nakajima, who says her track and field life was "empty" started again at the 2022 Japan Championships, where she finished fourth. From then on, she continued to update her personal best until this season and finally broke the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 Participation Standard Record with a time of 12.71 in July.
What was behind this rapid progress? What supported and changed her as she ran away from winning and losing? We asked her about her turbulent journey so far and her thoughts on the world in front of her.