Saw this on Yahoo Sports. I wonder if he will participate in any of this year's remaining Diamond League events.
Rohan Browning has expressed his disappointment after failing to advance to the 100m final at the
athletics world championships. The sprinter was on a high on Saturday after becoming the first Australian man in 28 years to reach the 100m semi-finals at a world championships.
However he came crashing back to earth on Sunday when he failed to progress to the final. The best season of the 25-year-old's career ended on a flat note in Budapest as he finished fourth in his semi with a time of 10.11 seconds - the same time he ran in the opening round the previous day.
As it turned out, Browning would have needed to equal his PB of 10.01 to have booked a spot in the final - a task he felt was well within his grasp. The 25-year-old had talked up the possibility of going under 10 seconds in Budapest.
"I am just really disappointed," he said after the semi-final. "I definitely felt like I was in shape to run a lot better. I felt like I had 60 metres of a really good race and the rest was really the reverse of yesterday. There are things to work on for the Olympics."
Rohan Browning (R) alongside Raphael Bouju (L) and Fred Kerley in the 100m semi-finals at the athletics world championships. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
Browning and coach Andrew Murphy felt it was an advantage to be drawn in the adjacent lane to defending world champion Fred Kerley, thinking it could have helped drag the Australian under 10 seconds for the first time. But Kerley also bombed out after his time of 10.02 proved not good enough to advance.
Browning, who
burst onto the international stage at the 2021 Olympics, has managed to get his average 100m time down to its best-ever level in 2023 . However he conceded that average of 10.11 wasn't quite good enough.
"It felt quicker," said Browning. "I knew sub-10 would be the benchmark to progress and that is where it ended up being more or less."
