17-year-old eclipses junior mark set in 1968 with time of 11.14s in PerthHigh school girl is the latest of talented Australian crop to emerge
Australia’s sprinting revival has gone up a gear at this year’s national athletics championships in Perth after another record more than half a century old was broken.
West Australian teenager Leah O’Brien won the under-18s girls 100m on Tuesday in a time of 11.14s, eclipsing Raelene Boyle’s record in the junior age bracket that was set at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico and had stood for 57 years by six hundredths of a second.
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