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Kennedy Hails Golden Age for Australia After Smashing National 100m Record
Lachie Kennedy and Torrie Lewis set Australian 100m records as Kennedy won silver and Lewis took bronze in Commonwealth Games finals.
- At the Commonwealth Games, Australian sprinters Lachie Kennedy and Torrie Lewis claimed medals while breaking national 100m records, with Kennedy taking silver in 9.85 seconds and Lewis securing bronze.
- Kennedy's silver ended Australia's agonising wait for a men's sprint medal since 1962, when Michael Cleary took bronze, prompting the sprinter to declare Australian track is in a "golden age."
- In the final, the 21-year-old Lewis realised a "long-held dream" despite battling an Achilles injury in recent weeks, while Cameroon's Emmanuel Eseme set a Games record of 9.83 seconds to claim gold.
- The success extended across the track as Ky Robinson became the first Australian man to win the 10,000m since 1958, and Eleanor Patterson secured high jump gold by clearing 1.96 metres in Glasgow.
- Kennedy reflected that "Aussie track is clearly in, I think, the best spot it's ever been," as the Australian squad secured a medal in every Commonwealth Games event they entered.
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Kennedy hails golden age for Australia after smashing national 100m record
MELBOURNE, July 29 : Sprinter Lachlan Kennedy has hailed a new golden age in Australian athletics after he and Torrie Lewis broke 100m national records in clinching Commonwealth Games medals in Glasgow.Kennedy ran a personal best 9.85 seconds to beat Patrick Johnson's mark of 9.93 set in 2003 to claim a silv
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