[National Sports Festival] Kim Young-beom wins 2 gold medals on the first day of swimming... Athletics Joel Jin, men's 100m 2nd consecutive victory (overall)

(Seogwipo·Jeju = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah and Kim Kyung-yoon = 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games men's 50m swimming gold medalist Kim Young-beom (Gangwon Provincial Office) won two gold medals on the first day of the race, starting a multi-championship streak.

Kim Young-beom won the gold medal in the men's 50m swimming final at the 107th National Sports Festival held at the Jeju Stadium swimming pool in Jeju City on the 18th, beating Ji Yu-chan (Daegu City Hall, 22.27 seconds) with a time of 22.14 seconds.

He then competed in the men's 800m relay final along with Jae-Hoon Yang, Sun-Woo Hwang, and Jun-Woo Kim and won with a time of 7 minutes 18.89 seconds, earning his second gold medal.

He will also compete in the men's 400m relay (20th) and 100m freestyle (21st) in this competition, aiming to win four gold medals.

In the men's regular 800m freestyle held on the same day, Yoon Jun-sang (Seogwipo City Hall) won the gold medal in 8 minutes 11.11 seconds, and in the 200m butterfly butterfly, Kim Min-seop (Gyeongbuk Sports Council) won the gold medal in 1 minute 55.15 seconds.

Kim Young-nam (Jeju Provincial Office), who won the silver medal in the men's 1m springboard diving event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, won the men's synchronized platform 10m event with Kim Young-taek (Jeju Provincial Office) with 377.28 points.

In the women's 50m freestyle, Heo Yeon-kyung (Daejeon Facilities Management Corporation) won in 25.28 seconds, winning her third consecutive title.

In the men's 100m final held at Kang Chang-hak Stadium in Seogwipo-si, Jeju, Namadi Joel-jin (Yecheon County Office), the next-generation star in Korean track and field sprints who ranked 4th in this event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, won with a record of 10.35 seconds.

Following his debut on the professional stage last year, he will attempt to win three gold medals at this year's National Sports Festival for the second year in a row.

Namadi Joel Jin continues the race in the 200m relay on the 19th and the 400m relay on the 20th.

Viwesa Daniel Gassama (Ansan City Hall), who forms the men's sprint double with Namadi Joel Jin, withdrew from the preliminaries on this day.

Han Seung-hyun (Chungnam Provincial Office), who won the marathon silver medal by only 'one second' at last year's National Sports Festival, won the championship by completing the 42.195km full course in 2 hours, 24 minutes and 55 seconds in the men's marathon general division.

In the women's marathon division, Choi Jeong-yoon (Chungnam Provincial Office) achieved her second consecutive victory with a record of 2 hours 43 minutes and 52 seconds, beating Jeong Hyun-ji (Samcheok City Hall, 2 hours 43 minutes and 55 seconds) by 3 seconds.

Seo Chae-hyun (Seoul City Hall, North Face), who won one gold medal and one bronze medal at the Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games, achieved the milestone of winning two gold medals at the National Sports Festival for four consecutive years with a score of 84.6 points in the women's sport climbing bouldering final held at Jeju Stadium Oreum Madang.

She won her second gold medal of the day after winning the gold medal in the women's general division held the previous day.

In the men's general division lead, Lee Do-hyeon (Seoul City Hall), bronze medalist in the men's lead at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, succeeded in winning the event for the fifth time in a row.

Jeon Woong-tae (Gangwon Province Sports Council) and Seong Seung-min (Korea National Sport University), the leading figures of Korean modern pentathlon who won gold medals at this year's Asian Games, each took the top spot in the men's and women's regular 4-athlon event held at Aewol Neighborhood Park in Jeju.

Modern pentathlon is an event in which one athlete participates in all of fencing, swimming, obstacle racing, and laser running, and at the National Sports Festival, a competition involving only four events excluding obstacles is held as a separate event.

Seong Seung-min also took first place (3,281 points) with Lee Ga-young and Yoon Yang-ji in the four-game team event, winning two gold medals.

In the team event, Jeon Woong-tae teamed up with Lee Kang-rok and Kim Yu-bin to win the silver medal (3,557 points).

Park Hye-jeong (Goyang City Hall), the leading female weightlifter in Korea, won first place in the women's general division 86kg and over category with snatches of 128kg, clean and jerk 166kg, and a total of 294kg, giving Gyeonggi Province three gold medals.

Park Hye-jeong, who has been unemployed for four years, has won the national sports championships in all competitions since 2023, the first year. He ranked first in all categories of the National Sports Festival except for the 2023 hike (second place).

In the women's 86kg class, Kim Soo-hyun (Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall) took first place with 112kg in snatch, 144kg in clean and jerk, and 256kg in total, winning three gold medals.

In the men's rapid-fire pistol finals held at the Changwon International Shooting Range in Gyeongnam, this year's Asian Games gold medalist Lee Geon-hyuk (Daegu Public Facilities Management Corporation) won the championship with 34.0 points, beating Song Jong-ho (30.0 points, Industrial Bank of Korea), winning the competition for the second time in a row.

Fin swimmer Lee Yu-min (Seoul City Hall) won the women's general surface 200m final with a Korean record of 1 minute 28.31 seconds.

He set a Korean record for the second day in a row, following the surface 400m (3 minutes 15.27 seconds) held the previous day.