Namadi Joel Jin Ties 100m National Record; Park Na-yeon Breaks 1500m Record

Namadi Joel Jin, a 20-year-old sprinter, has equaled the second-fastest men's 100-meter time in South Korean athletics history, clocking 10.13 seconds at the Niigata Prefecture Athletics Championships in Japan. This performance marks a personal best for Jin, shaving 0.03 seconds off his previous record.

Only Kim Kuk-young, a coach for the South Korean women's national sprint team, has run faster, holding the national record of 10.07 seconds set in 2017, along with two other times faster than 10.13 seconds. Jin's competitor, Daniel Gasama Biwesa, also achieved 10.13 seconds in April, and finished second to Jin in the race with a time of 10.15 seconds. Both Jin and Biwesa, who are teammates on the national team, are aiming to break the 10-second barrier.

In another significant achievement, Park Na-yeon, 28, set a new national record in the women's 1500 meters at the Hokuren Distance Challenge. Her time of 4 minutes 13.87 seconds surpasses the previous record of 4 minutes 14.18 seconds, held for 34 years by Lee Mi-kyung since 1992.