The drop is considered one of the most popular names in athletics worldwide at this time, but it is only an Australian prospect in a rapid growth list, giving the nation belief that it can be an important contender in some of the fastest races in the world.
Several coaches and experts believe that the country is in the precipice of its largest time in the track sprint, with an Olimpid de Home in 2032 on the horizon.
While the southeast of Queensland prepares to organize its own games, it has become a factory for Sprint Stars, with young people like Lachlan Kennedy, Thewbelle Philp, Amaya Mearns and the law of calabas also establishing a ray rhythm.
During the next nine days, sprinters will compete in the Australian Athletics Championship in Perth.
They will face face to face, they will challenge and push more and faster towards the finish line, hunting new records, the best personal results and more opportunities to use green and gold in the world championship in Tokyo in September.
Lachlan Kennedy stole the drop -down holders at the Maurie plant meeting. (Getty Images: Cameron Spencer)
“I think we are already in the golden Australian Sprint era,” said silver medalist from the 60 -meter male Male Lachlan Kennedy.
“I can’t see any of us decrease speed, especially if the standard is still raised.
“You want to overcome everyone who faces, even if they are their friends, it is an individual sport at the end of the day, but we are competitors.
“I don’t want to lose with anyone in any career in which he is and I don’t think he loses in any career in which he is … so we all push each other.
“Competition is the best for a sport like this … our relay team improves a lot; it only generates a good culture of competitiveness, intensity and emotion.”
All sprinters have different trips, different stories, but share the same motivation: compete for Australia in Brisbane in seven years, just kilometers from where they train every day.
Know some of our future Sprint stars.
Thewbelle Philp
What will lack Thewbelle Philp, certainly does not lack speed: coach Leanne Hins-Smith believes that the 16-year-old has the ability to be Australia’s fastest woman.
The student of the Palm Beach Currumbin High School of Year 12 established an abrasing rhythm in the championships of all Australian schools last year in Brisbane, with the third time of 100 meters faster of 100 meters, 11.38, in the history of Australia.
Standing 1.57 meters high, Thewbelle Philp is electric on the track. (ABC News: Jess Stewart)
Now Philp and his coach are looking at Raelene Boyle’s record of 11.20, set in Mexico in 1968.
“I got into athletics when I was 10 years old, so I used to swim and tried team sports like Touch when it was growing, but I mainly bowed to running,” Philp said.
“In primary school on sports days, I was winning the races and my dad said: ‘Well, you’re going quite well, Belle, don’t you want to try a training?'”
It was then that Philp, nicknamed ‘Chewy’, met his coach and together they have only flourished from there.
“My reaction time, my beginnings too, that is my strength,” said the teenager.
“I want to be able to do Brisbane’s Olympic Games in 2032, so I hope my process to get there is quite good.”
This week, in the Nationals of Perth, it will compete in the 100 meters and 200 meters of less than 18 years and less than 20 events, as well as the 4×100 meters relay.
Thewbelle Philp and coach Leanne Hines-Smith. (ABC News: Jessica Stewart)
Philp measures 1.57 meters high, but Hines-Smith haste to remind him that he is actually higher than some of the fastest and most successful female sprinter in the world: the Jamaican price of Shelly-ANN Fraser and the American Sha-Carri Richardson.
“I don’t think the height is one thing. Thewbelle is fiercely competitive. It has some great attributes genetically and is hungry and loves sport,” said Hines-Smith.
“I think it has so much capacity and the exciting part is that it is young, definitely not exaggerated. His strength is that he still has more speed to develop.”
Amaya Mearns
A fierce but friendly rival of Philp, Amaya Mearns is also hunting one of Raelene Boyle’s national long -standing records.
The 17-year-old girl from St Peters Western Lutheran College believes that she will break the Boyle of 22.74 times set in the child 18 and 20 200 meters 56 years ago.
Charging…
His best personal moment is 23.15, established in December 2024.
Mearns, who began his junior athletic career as a long distance broker, said he likes to have someone to chase outside the blocks.
“I love having a rival … As much as I don’t like to come in second place, I think it really helps me to run faster and improve,” he said.
“My favorite event is 200 and my best event is 200.
“I am a little higher than most of my competition, so it takes me a little longer to get my step, but after about 150 meters it is where my step really opens.”
Amaya Mearns has an eye on Brisbane 2032. (Getty Images: Cameron Spencer)
Mearns, who is an enthusiastic boxer when he is not on the track, said she is determined to compete at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games.
“I think I was national champion in [the time of the announcement]”She said.
“When we saw him on television, my mother took a photo and she said ‘that it would be you someday’, and my best friend and I looked at each other: ‘Yes, we will go to that’.
“I think it’s something I could achieve, but it is obviously far away.”
Lachlan Kennedy
Lachlan Kennedy is what many in the world of athletics would consider a “newcomer”, but he is still 21 years old.
Kennedy, who last month won the first Australian medal in the 60 meters in the World Athletics Interior Championship, a great player from the Rugby Union grew before changing to Sprinting.
Lachlan Kennedy believes that the 100 -meter Australian record will break this year. (ABC News: Jessica Stewart)
“It was not super skilled or good in football, it was a definitive responsibility in defense, but I would get the ball in my hands and I will only try to run around the people,” he said.
In his older years in Gregory Terrace of St Joseph in Brisbane, he said it was his coach of the Rugby Union who actually suggested that he assume the track and the field.
He has been training as a sprinter for about four years.
“I think I’m very lucky in that sense that I have had a good start [to the sport]”, said.
“I still have much more that I can improve, much more strength to get. I have only scratched the surface of what I am capable.
“The most important step for me was definitely involving the gym because I always got up only for football. Then, once I left school and began to lift with the focus more of the track, it was the place where I saw the jump and improvement.”
Kennedy, who studies engineering and commerce at the University of Queensland, believes it will only be a matter of time when he breaks the 10 seconds barrier in the 100 meters.
His best personal moment is 10.03, achieved in Perth last month.
Kennedy is confident that the Australian record of 9.93 of 93 of Patrick Johnson of 9.93 will not be safe for much longer.
“It will break. With luck in Perth, if not definitely for the end of the year,” he said.
“I don’t want to stop Australia’s fastest man. I obviously want to continue and be one of the world’s main threats.
“Only in Australia in Australia has exploded greatly.
“So it is feasible to put everything I have in this sport. With the Olympic Games in Brisbane in 2032, it is only an extra motivation.”
CALABILINE LAW
Calab Law is the current national champion in the 200 meters, a world bronze medalist of children under 20, represented Australia at the Paris Olympic Games, and is only 21 years old.
He is also Lachlan Kennedy’s training partner.
Calab Law describes himself as a “relaxed corridor.” (ABC News: Jessica Stewart)
“I started when I was 10 years old,” he said.
“My mother was a great admirer of Cathy Freeman and basically that is how I started, because I was seeing Cathy as a child.
“My mother always said it was going to be fast because I had a twin brother and even when we started walking, I was always hitting it.”
The 21 -year -old Mayne Harriers Athletics Club along with Kennedy and Mearns.
“I think I’m a fairly relaxed runner … This is how I describe myself,” he said.
“Who would not want to have the fastest man in Australia as the 100 and 200 at this time, like Lachie, to train?”
Coach Andrew Iselin said the law is able to achieve anything that occurs to him.
“He is such a cross guy. He is very relaxed,” Iselin said.
“Actually, it only makes all the type of training experience better for everyone because it brings that aura on it.”
The law will operate at 100 and 200 meters in the Nationals of Perth next week.
