Overview
- Gout Gout won the 200m in 19.67 at Sydney on Sunday with a legal +1.7 m/s wind, breaking the national record as Aidan Murphy followed in 19.88.
- The time was reported as a world under-20 record ahead of Erriyon Knighton’s official mark, and it bettered Usain Bolt’s 19.93 at the same age.
- Lachlan Kennedy, who ran 9.96 on Friday and then repeated it to win Saturday’s 100m title, withdrew from the 200m final to manage his workload.
- Cameron Myers ran 3:29.85 in the 1500m, which is the fastest ever on Australian soil and the top time worldwide this year.
- In the women’s 1500m, Jess Hull fell after contact with Claudia Hollingsworth, whose disqualification was later overturned on appeal.