2026 Track Results

White Lightning said:
I think it's a mistake. He is risking injury at the end of a very long season for him. I can only think of a few reasons why he would run?

1 To finally win a Diamond League Race and put up a good time to prove he belongs there & get a nice paycheck.

2 For one final try to see if he can get back in shape for a 3rd time to stay entered in the World Athletics Ultimate Champs in a couple of weeks.

3 A third reason is that he may be considering moving and running for a country in Europe? I'm sure he is falling in love with the countries and the people there. Not that Australia isn't also amazing. It would be easier for him to peak there without having to double peak every
season in track.

To peak twice in a year is difficult but Lachie did it. To peak 3 times in 1 year is unheard of. Again I worry for his health as he has a very
long career ahead of him and he came off a major back injury a year ago that almost ended his career.
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he may simply be honouring his commitments while enjoying being in Europe. He told in the interviewer after Silesia that he hadn't really been training much since Glasgow .... so very possibly he's been travelling around and it's hard to fit in training everywhere he goes.

I've some fellow masters athletes who've just finished competing in Daegu. When asked if I'd consider it I said to one friend I wouldn't ever spend travelling opportunities and savings (we usually go for some months) to be sat in a stadium watching and doing OP's athletics. Maybe Lachlan's feeling a bit of that now he's been competing 6 months straight
 
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Lachlan Kennedy came in 4th but still ran yet another sub 10 in a time of 9.99 +0.1 on a wet track in lane one! I think this just may convince him to stay in the World Athletics Challenge. If my calculation is right this is is 6th wind legal sub 10 in the last 2 years. Only 1 sub 10 away
from tieing Christophe Lemaitre for the most ever by one of our guys.

Legend Lachlan! :flamethrower2:
 
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White Lightning said:
Lachlan Kennedy came in 4th but still ran yet another sub 10 in a time of 9.99 +0.1 on a wet track in lane one! I think this just may convince him to stay in the World Athletics Challenge. If my calculation is right this is is 6th wind legal sub 10 in the last 2 years. Only 1 sub 10 away
from tieing Christophe Lemaitre for the most ever by one of our guys.

Legend Lachlan! :flamethrower2:
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Just watched it now on an hour delay. Lachie didn't actually get the fastest start (coleman in the lane next to him got out much quicker) but held his speed well. Good to see speed endurance and another sub-10. A really fantastic season for this legend! Let's pray for no injuries and even more progress over the next two big years.
 
White Lightning said:
Lachlan Kennedy came in 4th but still ran yet another sub 10 in a time of 9.99 +0.1 on a wet track in lane one! I think this just may convince him to stay in the World Athletics Challenge. If my calculation is right this is is 6th wind legal sub 10 in the last 2 years. Only 1 sub 10 away
from tieing Christophe Lemaitre for the most ever by one of our guys.

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I was worried he was slowing through fatigue of long season then he re-groups. That's a fighting spirit.
His 9.99 now gives him a top ten average time of 9.97 and he'll get another sub 10 soon to equal Christophe's 7 times under 10.
Notice that those who finished 2nd,3rd,4th were the top 3 Commonwealth placegetters
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Amy Hunt 3rd in a Season Best 22.16 in the 200m. Kind of a par performance; was hoping for a new PB or even a first sub-22, but it's been a good long season. See her again in the Ultimate Championships next week.
 
sprintfan1234 said:
Amy Hunt 3rd in a Season Best 22.16 in the 200m. Kind of a par performance; was hoping for a new PB or even a first sub-22, but it's been a good long season. See her again in the Ultimate Championships next week.
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I was pondering about her increased 100m speed and wonder if the training mix still needs a bit of sorting to break her into the 21s
 
I'd just like to sing the praises of the (as yet) world's greatest sprinter of non west African African heritage.
Su Bingtian of China broke 10 seconds x 10 times legally over a 6 year period for a top 10 average of 9.95.

I think Kennedy will overtake him but Su certainly deserves a shout out
 
mastermulti said:
I'd just like to sing the praises of the (as yet) world's greatest sprinter of non west African African heritage.
Su Bingtian of China broke 10 seconds x 10 times legally over a 6 year period for a top 10 average of 9.95.

I think Kennedy will overtake him but Su certainly deserves a shout out
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Su Bingtian was nothing short of amazing. What a great career he had. He must be a living legend over there in Asia.
 
mastermulti said:
I'd just like to sing the praises of the (as yet) world's greatest sprinter of non west African African heritage.
Su Bingtian of China broke 10 seconds x 10 times legally over a 6 year period for a top 10 average of 9.95.

I think Kennedy will overtake him but Su certainly deserves a shout out
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Greatest is debatable. True greats bring their best to the biggest stage. World and Olympic finals. Su Bingtian didn't. In the 2015 World Champs, he ran 9.99 in the semi to qualify for the final, where he could only run 10.06. 2016 Olympics, he went out in the semi in 10.08. 2017 World Champs, he again made the final but disappointed in 10.27 (slower than both his heat and semi times). 2019 world champs, a disappointing 10.23 in his semi. And of course in the 2021 Olympics, the famous 9.83 to win his semi, only to come last of the finishers in the final with 9.98.
 
Su always went way to hard in the qualifiers and semi's leaving his gas tank running low for the finals. Otherwise he was an amazing sprinter.
 
Good run from Jaegar for 2nd in the 400 in 49.20. Amy Hunt and Zoe Hobbs coming up in the 100m in a few minutes. Some disappointing withdrawals: Hodgkinson and Warholm have both opted out to focus on the Ultimate Championships next weekend. As a Brit I'll be cheering on Georgia Hunter-Bell in the 1500, and interested to see Femke Bol's progress in the 800.
 
Amy second in 11.06, not bad for September especially after running the 200 last night. She edged out Sha-Carri Richardson with her trademark fast finish.
 
I just saw that Lachlan ran his 9.99 from lane 1. Wow, that is outstanding. He may just have some juice left for the Budapest meet.
 
Great race between Werro and Bol in the 800, Bol nearly got her on the home straight but Werro held out by 0.06 seconds. Both under 1:55. Bol getting closer in only her first season at the event. I predict she'll break the WR and win world champs and Olympics, injury permitting.
 
sprintfan1234 said:
Greatest is debatable. True greats bring their best to the biggest stage. World and Olympic finals. Su Bingtian didn't. In the 2015 World Champs, he ran 9.99 in the semi to qualify for the final, where he could only run 10.06. 2016 Olympics, he went out in the semi in 10.08. 2017 World Champs, he again made the final but disappointed in 10.27 (slower than both his heat and semi times). 2019 world champs, a disappointing 10.23 in his semi. And of course in the 2021 Olympics, the famous 9.83 to win his semi, only to come last of the finishers in the final with 9.98.
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let's change the adjective then to fastest
 
mastermulti said:
I'd just like to sing the praises of the (as yet) world's greatest sprinter of non west African African heritage.
Su Bingtian of China broke 10 seconds x 10 times legally over a 6 year period for a top 10 average of 9.95.

I think Kennedy will overtake him but Su certainly deserves a shout out
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To be honest I still put Christope Lemaitre above him because he was a sub 10/sub 20 sprinter and he won medals at the major
championships in the Bolt Era. He was a bronze medalist in the World Champs over the 200 meters. Also a 4 time European Champion and did it all in such a short career. I do have high respect for Su Bintian and he was an incredible talent. His explosiveness was incredible.

 
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White Lightning said:
To be honest I still put Christope Lemaitre above him because he was a sub 10/sub 20 sprinter and he won medals at the major
championships in the Bolt Era. He was a bronze medalist in the World Champs over the 200 meters. Also a 4 time European Champion and did it all in such a short career. I do have high respect for Su Bintian and he was an incredible talent. His explosiveness was incredible.

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I agree. In the post above I've changed "greatest" to fastest" for Su Bingtian. He was incredible and an Asian caste breaker. I don't mean a one off "fortunate" sub 10 (as good as that is - Guliyev, Tortu and others - for me it must be multiples. And a 9.8 is irrefutable
 
I've formulated a list of 18 athletes over the weekend of non "west african sub saharan" athletes who have followed Lemaitre's sub 10
sub 10s, best time number of sub 10s
2021 Su Bingtian 9.83 (0.9). x 10. China
2026 L. Kennedy. 9.85 (1.3) x 6. Aust
2026. S. Blaskowski 9.89 (1.5). x 1. U.S.
2011. C. Lemaitre. 9.92 (2.0). x 7. France
2003 P. Johnson 9.93 (1.8) x 1. Aust
2025. K Walker. 9.94 (1.1) x 1. U.S
2025. P Boonson. 9.94 (0.7). x 2. Thai
2021. R Yamagata 9.95 (2.0). x 1 Japan
2024 L Hinchliffe 9.95 (0.2) x 4. GB
2022. Y. Abeykoon 9.96 (1.6) x 1. Sri L
{2024. S. Brown. 9.96 (0.5). x 6. Japan} ... * I'm aware he is Japanese /Ghanaian mix. I haven't counted him in the 18 but he's of a different culture to those who enjoy traditional mixed race success which interested me.
2015 A Gemili 9.97 (2.0) x 1. GB ..... But primarily a 200 man with 3 sub 20s
2017. R Guliyev 9.97 (1.5) x 1. Azer/Turk ...very much a 200m man with 8 x sub 20s and 2 x 20.01
2018. Z.Xie 9.97 (0.9). x 2. China. ...... plus 3 x 10.01
2023 C Beck 9.97 (1.3) x 1. U.S.
2017. Y Kiryu 9.98 (1.8) x 2. Japan
2019 Y Koike. 9.98 (0.5) x 1 Japan
2022. M Boling 9.98 (1.6) x 1. U.S.
2018 P Tortu 9.99 (0.2). x 1. Italy

so we see many successes over the last 16 years started by Lemaitre. Unfortunately most have not become multiple sub 10ers. I'm still waiting for Rohan Browning to better those 2 x 10.01s to a 9.99
 
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I'm going to leave what Lachlan Kennedy said on record before he raced his wind legal 9.85 in the rain. The kid is just fearless. I believe he
can and will beat anyone on earth in the next couple of years. Do not be against this kid? A true superstar like the world has never seen!


Lachlan Kennedy has made a bold call in the race to shatter Patrick Johnson’s long-standing 100-metre Australian record, declaring if he’s beaten to breaking it he will simply knock off the new mark.
The coach of Eddie Nketia fired a warning back, declaring “The Incredible Hulk”, as he likes to call him, is capable of clocking 9.85 seconds in the coming weeks.
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Australian sprint powerhouse Lachlan Kennedy. Getty
Johnson clocked 9.93 seconds in Japan in 2003 to pinch the national record off Olympic and Commonwealth Games teammate Matt Shirvington.
No athlete has gone closer to erasing Johnson’s record than Kennedy, who put down two wind-legal 9.96-second runs at the national athletics championships in Sydney in April.

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“I feel like it’s always a bit competitive to see who’s going to break it first,” Kennedy told nine.com.au.
“But at the end of the day, I’m just gonna break it by more. If someone beats me to it, that’s fine – I’ll just break it again. I’m not stressed.”
Kennedy will get his next crack at Johnson’s record when he suits up at the prestigious Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon on July 5 (AEST).
The 22-year-old will then race a 200m at the Hungarian Grand Prix in mid-July, and possibly a 100m at the London Diamond League four days later, before tackling the 100m and 200m at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Nketia will run one or two 100m races ahead of the Commonwealth Games, then contest the 100m in Scotland.

“I think it’s me versus the clock at the end of the day,” Kennedy added.
“That’s how I think about it, at least.”
Kennedy and Nketia are both eyeing off 9.8 territory.
“The goal was to go 9.8 at some point this year and I am more than confident that’s still on the cards,” Kennedy said.
“Hopefully in my next 100m I can do that. Body feels good.
“Running 9.7 would be the dream. I’ve got plenty of time in my career to move on that.”
 
mastermulti said:
and he did ... and beat big Eddie by over 2 metres.
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He said they talk about running 9.7's as the dream. When have we ever seen a white sprinter this confident? That answer would be never. He is still humble though but he just believes he can run with anyone in the world. I do see him running in the 9.70's eiher in 2027 or 2028 at
some point. I am sure of it barring a major injury.

I'm so confident in this kids ability that I will predict he will be 1 of only 3 sprinters to ever run in the high 9.60's within the next 4 to 5 years. If he does that he would be in the top 4 fastest times ever and he may just become the 2nd fastest 100 meter sprinter ever behind Bolt before he is done with his career. Call me crazy but I see talent that is on par with any elite sprinter on earth!
 
here's a video I found interesting guys. That's why Tiaan Whelpton needs to become an honorary Aussie - his 10.09s weren't even considered

 
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