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Australian sprint sensation Eddie Nketia is talking up his potential to run even faster at the Commonwealth Games after a succession of eye-catching times.
Nketia will make his Australian debut in Glasgow after switching allegiance late last year from New Zealand. He is one of the headline names in the 86-athlete track and field team named on Monday.
The 25-year-old’s performances in the last few months have featured a wind-assisted 9.74 seconds for the blue-riband 100m. The Commonwealth Games record is Usain Bolt’s 9.88 seconds, set at Glasgow in 2014. Bolt set the world record of 9.58 in 2009.
Asked at the team announcement if he can run faster, Nketia replied: “I would love to – I want to run as fast as I can. If we can get a 9.6, we get a 9.6, if we can get the world record, we get the world record. But it’s just going to start from execution.”
The final selections feature some of Australia’s biggest athletics names, including Matt Denny (discus), Oliver Hoare (mile), Jess Hull (mile, 5000m), Jemima Montag (10,000m race walk) and Kurtis Marschall (pole vault), alongside a raft of emerging talent that have been making names for themselves on the international stage.
Marschall will be aiming to secure a third consecutive Commonwealth Games gold medal in the pole vault, further cementing his status as one of the event’s dominant forces, embracing the challenge of chasing history on the Commonwealth stage.
“I’m incredibly proud to be selected again for Australia. Winning one Commonwealth Games gold was special, but the opportunity to go for a third straight title means everything,” Marschall said.
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National 100m champion Lachlan Kennedy has a personal best of 20.26 in the 200m. (Getty Images: Cameron Spencer)
Lachlan Kennedy will try to complete the sprint double at next month's Glasgow Commonwealth Games after nominating for the 100m and 200m on his Commonwealth Games debut.
Kennedy, the national champion in the 100m and the first Australian to dip under 10 seconds on home soil, did not contest the 200m at the Australian Athletics Championships in April.
But with national 200m record holder Gout Gout opting to miss the Glasgow Games to focus on the Under-20 world championships in August, 22-year-old Kennedy has added it to his slate, having beaten Gout over the distance in a blockbuster clash at the Maurie Plant Meet in March.
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