Rohan Browning has been stuck – just – on the wrong side of the 10-second barrier for years. But his coach believes he can finally join the world’s best in Paris.
It’s the size of a tissue box, or the average male hand span. Or for the modern mind, the length of one-and-a-half iPhones.
One is easier than the other. Only one Australian has ever officially broken the 10-second mark: Patrick Johnson ran 9.93 in Mito, Japan, in 2003 to lower the Australian national record of Matt Shirvington . Since 2019, Browning has run 10.10s or faster on ten occasions – the most in Australian athletics history. Of the 23 fastest times ever run by Aussie sprinters, he boasts 10 of them, including second spot behind Johnson.
“There have been numerous occasions where if he had just done his average in one of those 10-metre segments, he would have 9.9. But that’s the problem: you have to score 100 per cent to do well in the 100m. If you get 95 per cent or 97 per cent, you are not going to run a PB. Since Los Angeles in 1984, every men’s 100m has been won in under 10 seconds and since 2004, every person to win a medal of any colour has run under 10. Indeed, of the 24 people to run in the final at the last four Olympics, only five scraped in without a sub-10s run in the semi-final.
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