Ryota Yamagata ran 100 meters in 9.95 seconds on Sunday at a race in Tottori in western Japan, shaving 0.02 off the national record set by Abdul Hakim Sani Brown in June 2019.Yamagata was a member of Japan's 2016 Olympic silver medal-winning 4x100-meter relay team along with Shota Iizuka, Yoshihide Kiryu and Asuka Cambridge. He became the fourth Japanese sprinter to run the 100 in under 10 seconds.Kiryu became Japan's first sub-10 sprinter in 2017, followed by Sani Brown and Yuki Koike."I've wanted to break 10 seconds all this time, so I'm happy to have done so," Yamagata said after he won …READ FULL ARTICLE
