told reporters<\/a> after setting the all-conditions Australian record.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m really hoping this season on the back of that to get a legal PB (personal best) and show I can compete. I really want that actual record. When I get out of college, I\u2019m looking forward to competing everywhere, including hopefully Europe this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a child, Auckland-born Nketia dreamed about playing rugby for the All Blacks. Having been partly raised in Canberra, he returned to Wellington to finish school.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Up until December 2025, Nketia represented New Zealand in athletics. In Kiwi colours, he went to the World Athletics Championships in Doha 2019 as the holder of the national 100m title at just 18, agonisingly missing out on a place in the semi-final by 0.01 seconds. He went on to represent his nation at a second World Championships, in Oregon in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a spell as an American Football wide receiver at the University of Hawaii, he decided his ambitions still lay on the track. He transferred to the University of Southern California after receiving an athletics scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Nketia: the new contender for Australian sprinting greatness Born to a father who represented New Zealand at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-678712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678712","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=678712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}