{"id":168805,"date":"2025-12-05T03:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168805\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:17:08","slug":"nz-sprinter-eddie-osei-nketia-switches-allegiance-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168805\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ sprinter Eddie Osei-Nketia switches allegiance to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand sprinter and national 100m record-holder Eddie Osei-Nketia has officially switched his allegiance to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old, who has not run for New Zealand in more than three years, will now compete for Australia.<\/p>\n<p>He last represented New Zealand in 2022 at the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Athletics posted on Instagram to announce the news: &#8220;Welcome, Edward Osei-Nketia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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<p>&#8220;The 10.08-second man joins the nation&#8217;s rising sprinting stocks. This is going to be fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Osei-Nketia broke his dad Gus Nketia&#8217;s record at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, with a 10.08 second effort.<\/p>\n<p>Okei-Nketia also holds the New Zealand 200m record, with a time of 20.24s set earlier this year in the US.<\/p>\n<p>He has been based in the United States as he tried his hand at American Football, before returning to the track. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand sprinter and national 100m record-holder Eddie Osei-Nketia has officially switched his allegiance to Australia. The 24-year-old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16671,85,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-168805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168805","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=168805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}