It’s not a good week to be a national record. The Fremantle doctor, Perth’s famous heat and 14mm of vulcanised rubber are exciting clock-watchers at this week’s Australian athletics championships as a new generation of sprint stars take to the swift WA Athletics Stadium.
All-age events are yet to begin but already the meet has delivered one high-profile record – teenager Leah O’Brien’s new under-18 100m mark that is just four hundredths off Torrie Lewis’s senior standard – and emerging stars including Gout Gout and Lachie Kennedy are greedy for more sprinting history after their spectacular recent development.
