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\nEddie Osei-Nketia.
\nPhoto: PHOTOSPORT\n<\/p>\n
New Zealand sprinter and national 100m record holder Eddie Osei-Nketia has officially switched allegiances to Australia.<\/p>\n
Osei-Nketia broke his dad Gus Nketia’s record<\/a> at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, stopping the clock at 10.08 seconds. He came close to breaking the 10 second barrier earlier this<\/a> year.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old, who is based in the US, is now set to race for Australia.<\/p>\n Governing body Australian Athletics posted on Instagram to announce the news. “Welcome, Edward Osei-Nketia,” the post said.<\/p>\n “He has been lighting up Australian tracks for years but Edward Osei-Nketia is now officially eligible to represent Australia on the world stage, successfully completing his transfer of allegiance from New Zealand.<\/p>\n “The 10.08-second man joins the nation’s rising sprinting stocks. This is going to be fun.”<\/p>\n Osei-Nketia is also the New Zealand 200m record holder, bettering the mark with a 20.24s finish earlier this year at a meet in the US.<\/p>\n He also ran 9.96s over 100m at a college meet in Texas in April although it was wind-assisted.<\/p>\n He last represented New Zealand in 2022 at the World Champs and earlier this year Australian Athletics confirmed he had requested a transfer of allegiance.<\/p>\n Osei-Nketia moved to the US after leaving New Zealand and had a crack at American football in Hawaii, before getting back on the sprinting track for the University of Southern California in 2024.<\/p>\n He has been based in the US since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Osei-Nketia. Photo: PHOTOSPORT New Zealand sprinter and national 100m record holder Eddie Osei-Nketia has officially switched allegiances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-168507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}