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'He is here': Athletics world blown away as Lachlan Kennedy records rare Aussie feat
Aussie sprinter Lachlan Kennedy has become just the second Aussie male to ever run sub-10 seconds in the 100m event having won the Kip Keino Classic in Kenya. Kennedy has been tittering around the 10 second mark across the 12 months with his personal best recorded at 10 seconds. Although the Aussie made sure he became just the second man, after Patrick Johnson, to break the 10 second barrier having recoded a 9.98 to win his race at the Kip Keino Classic. Kennedy had to do it the hard way having come from behind in a stacked field that was made up of with an Olympic medalist. Kennedy was able to break away and hold onto his narrow lead to crash over in first head Bayanda Wazala of South Africa and Kenya's African 100m record holder Ferdinand Omanyala. "Finally, finally, the Australina has gone under 10 seconds. He has been waiting to do that for so, so long," the commentator said as Kennedy embraced his fellow sprinters with a smile. However, Kennedy wasn't truly stunned until the moment his legal time of 9.98 popped up on the board. "As soon as I saw the 9.98 I was thrilled, the feeling was so surreal. I couldn't believe it," Kennedy said after the race. Johnson achieved his record of 9.93 back in 2003 and Kennedy has one-eye on eclipsing this feat soon. Rohan Browning has the third fastest time ever recorded by an Australian with 10.01, while Matt Shirvington's best was 10.03. And while Kennedy isn't getting ahead of himself the 21-year-old is making waves in the athletics community ahead of the World Championships in Tokyo later this year. Kennedy has been selected to represent Australia at the World Championships in the 100m. Kennedy has featured for Australia at the Olympics and Indoor Championships, but never at the World Championships. Only earlier this year And the Aussie will have sent a warning shot to rivals such as Olympic gold medallist Noah Lyles. Aussie fans were absolutely delighted for Kennedy who is proving to be another global star for Australian athletics. The nation's program is currently entering its golden era with the likes of Gout Gout and Torrie Lewis making waves overseas across the last 12 months. How about that ‼️🇦🇺's Lachlan Kennedy rules at the @KipKeinoClassic 🔥 9.98 PB to win the 100m and move up to 2nd on the Australian all-time list 👏 #ContinentalTourGold — World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) May 31, 2025 This is so awesome to wake up to. Lachlan Kennedy runs 9.98 to become just the second Australian to run a legal sub-10 really about to go through a golden era of Aussie men's sprinting. — Mark Gottlieb (@MarkGottlieb) May 31, 2025 🔥 WOW 🔥Lachlan Kennedy🇦🇺 becomes only the second Australian to run under 10 seconds for 100m, running 9.98 (-0.7)Wins the race against some classy opposition at the Kip Keino Classic🇰🇪 and goes sub-10 despite the headwind#sensational 📽️ World Athletics — athsSTATS (@athsstats) May 31, 2025 Lachlan inching closer to that Oceania Record1️⃣9.93 (+1.8) Patrick Johnson2️⃣9.98 (-0.7) Lachlan Kennedy3️⃣10.01 (+0.8) Rohan Browning4️⃣10.03 (-0.1) Matt Shirvington5️⃣10.08 (+1.9) Joshua Ross5️⃣10.08 (-0.3) Edward Osei-NketiaThey're all Australian🇦🇺 — Anderson Emerole (@EmeroleAnderson) May 31, 2025 Lachlan Kennedy joins the ranks of sub 1 men 🫡And what's more insane? It was into a headwind out in Nairobi. A gold level win, 2nd Aussie (wind legal) to break the mark, and into a headwind for 9.98Unreal scenes — Mitch Dyer (@mitchdyerlive) May 31, 2025 Lachlan Kennedy just beat a 9.7 man on his own soil and an Olympic medallist in the same raceHE IS HERE. — Timmytheinventor 🇦🇺 🇳🇬 (@Jubbitie) May 31, 2025 Kennedy has shot to international prominence in recent months alongside fellow Aussie young gun Gout. Earlier this year, Kennedy made his Diamond League debut in Xiamen. On this occasions, he recored 10.18 - well down from his then PB of 10.00. This saw Kenya's Omanyala out run him with winner South African Akani Simbine the runaway winner in 9.99. But Kennedy has improved in the last two months and eclipsed his best time. Already in 2025, he has claimed silver in the 60m at the world indoors in Nanjing. He ran a PB of 10.00-flat in the heats at the Australian championships earlier this month, but broke this in Kenya having broken the elusive 10 second barrier.
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10-05-2025
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Lachlan Kennedy and Aussies fall agonisingly short as Torrie Lewis absence rocks fans
Lachlan Kennedy has helped Australia finish fourth in the World Relays Championships but fans have asked where Torrie Lewis and Gout Gout were for their respective teams after the Aussies missed out on automatic Tokyo qualification. Australia entered the World Relays with plenty of hope with the men's and women's depth in the sprint team an all-time high. Kennedy entered the race off the back of a stellar star to the season having ran a PB of 10.00-flat in the heats at the Australian championships last month, before being pipped in the final by Rohan Browning. He led the Aussies in the men's 4x100m race with Joshua Azzopardi, Christopher Ius and debutant Prince Jackson crossing the line in 38.33 to place fourth in their heat. The Australia's were up against it with South Africa delivering a record-breaking time of 37.84 in heat two in the wet conditions. However, the Aussie quartet finished fourth and there time was enough to reach the final on day two of the world relay championships. Unfortunately, Australia missed out on automatic qualification for the World Athletics Championships. The World Relays entices teams to gain automatic qualification to the championships being held in Tokyo later this year. This is where Kennedy and Gout Gout will compete in the individual events. Although the quartet missed out on automatic qualification for Tokyo by 0.03-seconds. This was a blow for the Aussies, but they will have another chances to improve on their time in round two. Despite the miss, fans were questioning why Gout wasn't part of the relay. Gout has competed with Kennedy on numerous occasions in the 100m event. Despite the 17-year-old breaking records in his favourite 200m distance, he is also one of Australia's quickest athletes across 100m. And with the added bonus of a baton changeover, which brings with it a running start, Gout would be at an advantage. Athletics Australia opted not to name Gout in the men's World Relay team last month. The news surprised some, but it appears the governing body doesn't want to introduce Gout to a number of men's events just yet. Gout is still finishing school and has only competed in the 200m event in the men's division. Instead, Gout will be nurtured until later this year where he will compete against Olympic champion Noah Lyles at the World Athletic Championships. Was there a reason Gout didn't run? — E-Wing Fighter Pilot (@holicclothing) May 10, 2025 Why is Gout Gout not on there? — Mr 100k a day (@mr100kaday) May 10, 2025 The women's 4x100m relay team also missed out on automatic qualification with the team rocked after the absence of both Torrie Lewis and Ella Connolly. Lewis holds the national record qigth 11.10, which was set last year, but was a surprise absentee from the team due to injury. While Connolly came down with an illness just before the race. This saw 17-year-old Thewbelle Philp anchor the race. And the team of Georgia Harris, Bree Masters, Kristie Edwards and Philp finish third in their heat with a time of 43.15. Unfortunatealy they also missed out on automatic qualification by 0.02-seconds. 'It was such an amazing experience out there. I actually felt calm, and I was taking all of the mental pictures out there. It really sunk in when I was walking out that I was able to run on the world stage,' Philp told Athletics Austrlaia. 'Being called into the women's team last minute was a bit overwhelming for me with nerves, but we raced out there and did our best, and we ran really well and we'll do it again tomorrow.' But in good news for Australia, the mixed 4x400m team of Cooper Sherman, Ellie Beer, Reece Holder and Alanah Yukich broke the Oceania record having recorded a time of 3:12.34. The quartet became the fisrt mixed Australia athletics history to qualify for a major championships. The team finished second behind Belgium after Yukich anchored the team with a blistering run. They will compete in the final in round two. Interesting W4x1 team - Harris, Rizzo, Edwards & Philp. Is something wrong with Torrie Lewis? — GT (@geetee007) May 10, 2025
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12-04-2025
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Browning pips Kennedy with 10.01 run in 100m final
Veteran Rohan Browning has regained his mantle as Australia's 100m sprint champion, producing an equal personal best time of 10.01 seconds to pip Lachie Kennedy in a thrilling photo finish at the Australian Athletics Championships. Kennedy ran a personal-best 10.00 in his heat win at the WA Athletics Stadium on Friday, and immediately set his sights on bettering the Australian record of 9.93 set by Patrick Johnson in Japan in 2003. But it was veteran Browning who came up trumps in a photo finish in Saturday night's final in Perth, equalling his career-best run from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Browning's final time of 10.01 (.001) bettered that of Kennedy 10.01 (.006) by five-thousandths of a second. Joshua Azzopardi (10.17) finished third. Many critics labelled Browning a spent force following some tough injury years, but the 27-year-old showed he still had plenty left in the tank. "It felt like Tokyo all over again. It felt really smooth," Browning said after Saturday's thrilling win. "I knew not to get sucked into running Lachie's race, because he's going to get out well. "I just had to focus on myself. There might have only been a handful of people in the stadium tonight that believed that was possible. And you know, you only need to believe in yourself." Rohan Browning WINS the 100 final in an equal PB of 10.01 from Lachie Kennedy ... just!What a race 🔥 — 7Sport (@7Sport) April 12, 2025 Rising global superstar Gout Gout didn't compete in the open men's field. Instead, he produced two runs of 9.99 in the under-20 100m sprint on Thursday, but both were achieved with illegal tail winds. It means Gout's personal best remains 10.17 seconds. In the women's 100m final on Saturday night, national record holder Torrie Lewis beat 17-year-old rising star Leah O'Brien and Bree Rizzo in a drama-filled photo-finish. It took several minutes for the winner to be determined given the closeness of the race. Lewis recorded a time of 11.24 (.236), ahead of O'Brien 11.24 (.240) and Rizzo (11.25). Wow. an extraordinary race in the women's 100 final!It's Torrie Lewis who takes it by four one-thousandths of a second after a TRIPLE photo finish 🤯 — 7Sport (@7Sport) April 12, 2025 "I'm so happy," Lewis said after defending her national crown. "I just said to them, 'That was such a crazy race guys. I'm happy for both of you'. Whoever gets it, gets it." Olympic silver medallist Jessica Hull won the 1500m women's national title for the third year running after going for broke with 400m to go. The pace was slow for most of the race, but Hull was able to create enough of a gap to win in 4:11.36, just ahead of Sarah Billings (4:11.51) and Georgia Griffith (4:12.09). She's Done It Again 👑The Queen of the 1500m delivers once more as Jessica Hull takes home another National Championship, her third in a an incredible last lap, she narrowly edges out Sarah Billings who came close with an inspiring run. From Jamaica to the… — Australian Athletics (@AustralianAths) April 12, 2025 "It was a very strange race," said Hull, who was competing just days after taking part in the grand slam track meet in Jamaica. "I think in my mind, I kind of probably thought Linden (Hall) would take up the running. In the first 200 she was boxed in on the rail pretty deep. "I was like, 'OK, it's not going to be Linden and I don't think anyone else is going to go, so just buckle up for the last 400'." In the men's 1500m final, 18-year-old rising star Cameron Myers (3:34.39) held on at the death to beat Adam Spencer (3:34.57) and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Oliver Hoare (3:34.61).
