For 20 years, Australian sprinters have failed to crack the10-second barrier. Rohan Browning has come close. Now, the metrics show he can finally find those last hundredths of seconds to join the big boys on the blocks.
. Now, two years on, he feels stronger and enters the competition in Budapest with a feeling of expectation rather than hope about his heat.“I think I am overdue for the big breakthrough run and I’m hoping to time it for world champs. I’ve been cautious about not peaking too early in the season. The improvement in this sport is measured in gradations. But to go to that level of being really competitive, one of those top eight guys and [a] finalist, is a big step.
“I think I have been steadily progressing even though my best run on paper [in the past 12 months] has been the 10.02s at nationals, I think that there is a lot more there on the right day if I really perform well,” he said. “I think this year the average of my top -five performances is 10.09s or 10.10 thereabouts – that is definitely an improvement and something which we have been whittling down every year and that trend is certainly heading in the right direction.
“The field is deep this year, there is no one standout guy – obviously Fred has the title, I’m not sure he has lost in the 100m this year – and Zharnel Hughes from the UK has run 9.83s and has the world lead. [Ferdinand] Omanyala from Kenya ran 9.7s last year I believe.”
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