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The Queenslander pipped NSW duo Joshua Azzopardi (10.16) and Rohan Browning (10.19), who finished second and third respectively.<\/p>\n
Kennedy earlier on Saturday night clocked 10.05 in the semi-final.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is spectacular,\u201d Channel 7 broadcaster Bruce McAvaney said after Kennedy crossed the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a star. Lightning did strike twice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Aussie sprinter Matt Shirvington said the nation had \u201cseen another evolution\u201d in Kennedy\u2019s racing, while Olympian Tamysn Manou added: \u201cWe\u2019re talking about the best runners in Australia, but look at the gap he takes out of them across that 100m. He is just a wonderful technician over the 100m race, but I love how super confident he is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking post-race, Kennedy declared \u201cthat is just the standard now\u201d.<\/p>\n
Kennedy BREAKS sub-10 mark | 00:42<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully next time we go a bit quicker than that and see where it takes us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed the win, I needed to be national champ, I needed to say that I had it so it is a bit of relief to finally do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Only Patrick Johnson (9,93sec) has run a faster time by an Australian \u2014 and Kennedy is confident he can eventually pip that time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still feel I haven\u2019t put together the perfect race yet so I think I have definitely got more in the tank,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was gassed after the semi (he ran 10.05) but the fact I was able to come out after that and run that time just shows I still have some things to work on and that the sky is the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s 100m, 21-year-old Georgia Harris ran 11.50sec to claim her first national title.<\/p>\n
‘You Just Cant Be Doing That!’ | 00:41<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, emerging star Peyton Craig was left ruing a late-race mistake that appeared to cost him an 800m semi-final spot.<\/p>\n
Craig was narrowly trailing Bob Abdelrahim in the second 800m heat before the pair reached out to fist bump each other just metres before the line.<\/p>\n
But as the pair looked to make contact, fast-finishing Degras Amekata surged ahead of Craig to pinch second from Craig by four-hundreths of a second.<\/p>\n
It meant Craig didn\u2019t progress to the next stage, with Abdelrahim and Amekata getting into the final.<\/p>\n
McAvaney was left stunned in the commentary box.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow he (Craig) has got to be careful here, because Amekata is coming hard. Peyton you\u2019ve got to have a look! Oh boy, oh boy, there you go,\u201d a perplexed McAvaney said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a really novice mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t just do this when it\u2019s the first two and it\u2019s a slow race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian sprint sensation Lachlan Kennedy has cracked the 10-second barrier for the second time in 24 hours, delivering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[292713,63,689,291953,292711,3423,292714,9121,292618,43,292715,209787,292712,63348,292717,44,677,72454,292710,292718,292716,41,39,42,40,9020],"class_list":{"0":"post-600498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aussie-sprint-star","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","11":"tag-australian-athletics-championships","12":"tag-australian-sprint-sensation","13":"tag-ben-waterworth","14":"tag-bob-abdelrahim","15":"tag-bruce-mcavaney","16":"tag-georgia-harris","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-joshua-azzopardi","19":"tag-lightning-strikes","20":"tag-maiden-national-athletics","21":"tag-matt-shirvington","22":"tag-national-athletics-title","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-oceania","25":"tag-patrick-johnson","26":"tag-peytron-craig","27":"tag-sprint-final-video","28":"tag-star-breaks","29":"tag-top-news","30":"tag-top-stories","31":"tag-topnews","32":"tag-topstories","33":"tag-young-gun"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}