Future Australian sprint king Gout Gout will attempt to break the 10-second barrier in the 100m (without wind assistance) over the next 12 months. The 17-year-old has already run the fastest 200m ...

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Gout Gout has been breaking records since December, when he became the quickest 16-year-old to win the 200m sprint [Colin Murty/AFP] Gout, who was born in Australia after his parents migrated from ...

Browning regained his mantle as Australia's 100m sprint champion, four years after he shot to international prominence in Tokyo. He famously beat Yohan Blake in the heats at the 2021 Olympics ...

Veteran sprinter Rohan Browning has declared his best years are still to come after producing a personal best run to win the Australian national 100m crown in Perth. Much of the talk leading into ...

Kennedy recorded the second-fastest time for the 100-metre sprint in Australian athletic history. It followed 17-year-old headline grabber Gout Gout running 9.99 seconds — but with an illegal ...

Back in December, just days before he broke Peter Norman’s 200m Australian record which he’d set at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, the then 16-year-old had been similarly matter-of-fact when ...

Patrick Johnson, renowned as Australia's fastest man, is keenly observing a new generation of sprinters aiming to break his long-standing 100 meters record. Johnson is the only Australian to have ...

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Hopes are high the magical 10-second barrier will be broken as Australia’s next wave of sprint stars converge in Perth for the Australian Athletics Championships, which get underway today.

Hopes are high the magical 10-second barrier will be broken as Australia's next wave of sprint stars converge in Perth for a glimpse of what promises to be a glorious future.