Kiwi-turned-Australian sprinter Eddie Nketia has clocked a staggering 100m time of 9.74 seconds at a college meet in the United States \u2013 but it won’t count for record purposes because of a howling tailwind.<\/p>\n
Nketia, who recently swapped his allegiance to Australia, did the 100m\/200m double for the University of Southern California at the Big Ten Track and Field Championships in Nebraska.<\/p>\n
It was the second time in as many months that he had gone faster than Patrick Johnson’s longstanding Australian 100m record of 9.93.<\/p>\n
But on both occasions the tailwind was above the legal mark of 2m per second.<\/p>\n
“It’s crazy man, to run 9.74 even with the wind. It shows It shows I’m getting better and can see the progress and the season isn’t over yet,” Nketia said.<\/p>\n
“I’m really hoping this season on the back of that to get a legal PB and show I can compete.<\/p>\n
“The all-conditions record is nice, but I really want that actual record.<\/p>\n
“I think the future is bright. When I get out of college I’m looking forward to competing everywhere, including hopefully Europe this year.”<\/p>\n
Nketia also won the 200m in Nebraska in 20.03, at which time the tailwind was a staggering 7.5m per second.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old could form part of what would be a formidable Australian 4x100m relay team also including the likes of Gout Gout, Lachlan Kennedy and Rohan Browning at next year’s world championships in Beijing and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.<\/p>\n
Last month, the American coach charged with refining Nketia’s raw power forecast the muscular sprinter could one day challenge the world’s best.<\/p>\n
“We’ve talked about this within our staff … Eddie could be one of the best who’ve ever done it as a whole,” USC track and field assistant coach Brenton Emanuel said.<\/p>\n
“I can’t say he’ll be the best in the world because obviously Usain Bolt was an anomaly, but I definitely think Eddie has a long career in track and field.<\/p>\n
“We’ve made some changes to his diet and his physique and stuff like that, and I think it’s paying off.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi-turned-Australian sprinter Eddie Nketia has clocked a staggering 100m time of 9.74 seconds at a college meet in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16671,85,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-432930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-athletics","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432930","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=432930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}