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AUSTRALIAN star Lachlan Kennedy has again upstaged teen sensation Gout Gout, taking down the national record holder in the 200m at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne.
The 22-year-old completed the 100m-200m double for the second successive year at Lakeside Stadium in front of almost 10,000 fans.
Many of those were there to see Gout, but again it was Kennedy who stole the show.
He made the most of a hot start to win the 200m in 20.38, with a fast-finishing Gout (20.43) second across the line.
A couple of hours earlier, Kennedy broke Jamaican legend Asafa Powell’s meet record to win the 100m.
Kennedy clocked 10.03 (+0.3) to beat former world record holder Powell’s 2008 Melbourne time by 0.01 secs, with Rohan Browning (10.25) second and Kiwi Tiaan Whelpton (10.29) third.
Another teenage member of Australian track and field’s Generation Next, Cameron Myers, won the John Landy 1500m in dominant fashion.
The 19-year-old Myers stormed away with a blistering final lap to post the fastest ever time by anyone on Australian soil – 3:30.42.
Adam Spencer (3:37.51) was second and Callum Davies (3:39.03) was third, while a collision behind the leaders took out three competitors.
“It’s awesome,” Myers said of his scintillating run.
“I haven’t really been able to do too much speed work because I cooked my hammy in training.
“But I had the crowd behind me and I felt good, so I just kept pushing onwards.”
Olympic pole vault champion Nina Kennedy took her comeback from an injury-wrecked 2025 up a level by clearing a meet-record 4.72m.
Fellow Olympic medallist Matt Denny (67.51) won the men’s discus.
Two-time Olympian Michelle Jenneke won a tight women’s 100m hurdles in 13.05 (+1.2).
