by Teenage Sprint Sensation Gout Gout Gout was subscribed by the Rivale Lachie Kennedy at 200m to meet the Maurie factory in Melbourne during a night which confirms the resurgence of athletics in Australia.
In front of around 10,000 fans at the Lakeside Stadium, the first sale to a competition in Australian athletics of a day in more than two decades, the 17 -year -old finished four hundredths of a second behind his compatriot Queenslander. Kennedy, who won the first Australia medal last week at 60m at the world indoor world championships, finished in a personal record of 20.26 after having run a powerful turn and holding the drop in line.
The 21-year-old said that he could feel taste, the 200m-attentor of the national record, closing in the last meter and said that he was “lucky” this time. “My goal was just to go out hard and do my best to hold it back,” said Kennedy. Gout has said that he would use defeat as motivation and that competition against Kennedy in recent years has helped him improve his speed. “It is not a new rivalry, but it is a rivalry that I appreciate and I love Lachie, it is also a Queenslander,” he said.
The meeting of the Maurie factory is the culmination of a day of the Australian athletic calendar, but it arrives two weeks before the national titles of Perth, where the pair should meet. Gout said he would be ready for the next race. “It definitely puts fuel on my fire, and it turns on this burn, so when I can train, [I will] Work even harder and help me improve nationals. »»
Kennedy fell in the last night race after winning the 100m at the start of the evening. Although it was not close to the 10 -second barrier in windy conditions, its 10.17 were too good for the national champion Seb Sultana and Rohan Browning, who finished third.
In the 200m female, Kristie Edwards ran a sensational turn and kept the victory, with Jessica Milat Second and Torrie Lewis fading for a fifth disappointing.
The winner of the gold medal of the Paris Letsile Tebogo Olympic Games chose to manage the 400m, but was beaten in second place by his compatriot Bayapo Ndori, with another Botswanan, Leungo Scotch, in third. The country was narrowly for gold by the United States in the 4x400m relay in Paris.
Tebogo’s race on Saturday was the best of the season in the longer event, but it now moves gears for the northern summer hemisphere. “Now we are done, we focus on 200 meters, now we have done what we wanted to do,” he said.
One of the other adolescent stars of Australia, Cameron Myers, broke a high quality 1500m male field, extending into the last lap and clinging to Adam Spencer. “It was difficult conditions, but I was able to muscle as best I could,” said Myers.
In the 1500m female, Claudia Hollingsworth sprouts in the last straight line to defeat Sarah Billings, Linden Hall and Abbey Caldwell. After the 19 -year -old woman won with a better moment of the season, she said it was a “crazy” race, and the field was “crazy”. “Many thrusts, a lot of change of position, not quite the racing plan that I planned, but I finally did the work,” she said.
The Double Olympian Ellie Beer closed a memorable week with a strong performance in the female 400m. The 22 -year -old was part of the Australian women’s 4x400m women’s relay team who won bronze in the world indoor championships a week ago. She striated by the house for a personal record of 51.35s in the female 400m, winning more than a second and a half.
High Jumper Eleanor Patterson took advantage of the absence of Nicola Olysgers to easily win the height of women with a release of 1.94 m. The Olympic bronze medalist Matt Denny won the disc with a 68.17 m throw, less than two meters from its national record.
Before the stands blocked in Lakeside, Denny said it was a memorable evening. “Even this intro, when you look outside and the stadium is excited, and you get this good throw, it’s probably up there with my three best moments of my career,” he said.
