The potential of the modern pentathlon, which started when the track and field club was disbanded, exploded.
Reporter Kim Hyung-yeol covered the story.
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Shin Soo-min, who became the world's first 17-year-old and 19-year-old at the same time to become the strongest pentathlon in the world, returned with four medals around his neck.
[Shin Su-min's mother: You did very well~ You did very well~]
Shin Su-min was a promising long-distance athlete who swept the middle school from the first year of middle school.
However, his fate changed when the track and field club was disbanded last year when he was in the third year of middle school.
After he transferred to school, he started the modern pentathlon in earnest, and quickly learned unfamiliar sports such as shooting, fencing, and swimming.
[Soo-Min Shin/Seoul High School freshman: I think it's more fun to do several (sports) than to do one thing.]
After wearing the Taegeuk mark in one year, Su-Min Shin was dissuaded by the coach at the 17-year-old and 19-year-old World Championships held in succession. Despite this, he wrote a new history by claiming to be a non-stop marching for a week.
[Shin Su-min/Seoul Chego High School freshman: It was hard, but I thought I could win a medal, so I ran all the way.
(I) was fast in track and field, so I thought I could catch up.]
Shin Su-min, who appeared like a comet, made up his mind to follow in the footsteps of his senior Jeon Woong-tae, who impressed him at the Tokyo Olympics.
[Shin Su-min/Seoul Chego High School freshman: I want to imitate how cool and hard working after winning an Olympic medal.
(I too) want to become a player who works hard and achieves good results.]
(Video coverage: Gong Jin-goo, Video editing: Kim Jong-tae, CG: Kim Jong-un)