{"id":677697,"date":"2026-05-18T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677697\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:32:09","slug":"eddie-nketia-wins-us-college-gold-with-another-australian-all-conditions-100m-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677697\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Nketia wins US college gold with another Australian all-conditions 100m record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Australian Eddie Nketia has once again smashed the all-conditions 100m record with another massive tailwind propelling him to double gold at a college track meet in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\"><a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-05-07\/eddie-nketia-gout-gout-lachlan-kennedy-australian-sprint-rivals\/106647958\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106647958\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The former New Zealander, who switched allegiances to Australia late last year,<\/a> won the 100m and 200m at the Big Ten Track and Field Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Running for the University of Southern California (USC), Nketia stormed to victory in the 100m in 9.74 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Loading Instagram content<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\"><a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-04-19\/eddie-nketia-breaks-australian-all-conditions-100m-record\/106581238\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106581238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">For the second time this season<\/a>, the 25-year-old stopped the clock in a time that would have smashed Patrick Johnson&#8217;s national record of 9.93 seconds, only for an illegal tailwind to rule the time out of contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A tailwind of 5.6 metres per second, almost three times the legal limit of 2m\/s, was howling at the University of Nebraska as Nketia flew to victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Lesss make it legal next time,&#8221; he wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really hoping this season on the back of that to get a legal PB and show I can compete,&#8221; Nketia said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The all-conditions record is nice, but I really want that actual record.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Nketia then followed up with victory in the 200m in a time of 20.03 seconds, with an even bigger tailwind of +7.5m\/s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Eddie Nketia has once again smashed the all-conditions 100m record with another massive tailwind propelling him to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[91548,5654,64,63,299543,8050,85,81438],"class_list":["post-677697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-100m","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eddie-nketia","tag-record","tag-sports","tag-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677697","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=677697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}