​ May 30, Tokyo, Japan This is the Reddit post from May 3, just 27 days ago, when Ochiai ran an astounding 1'43''90 at the 41st Shizuoka International Athletics Meet in Shizuoka, Japan. Today, at MDC 2026 (Twolaps Middle Distance Circuit) in Tokyo, Japan, he smashed his own national record again by 0.45 seconds. The breath-taking 1'43''45 time also places him the second best ever in Asia. The previous time he held, 1'43''90, had been the fourth. Our AR is still the 1'42''79 from 2008 by the Kenya-born Bahraini runner Yusuf Saad Kamel. Ochiai is currently in his second year of college and will be 20 years old in August. submitted by /u/a_windmill_mystery [link] [comments]