{"id":73667,"date":"2026-05-17T23:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/eddie-nketia-runs-100m-in-9-74s-but-australian-sprint-record-stays-out-of-reach\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:55:44","slug":"eddie-nketia-runs-100m-in-9-74s-but-australian-sprint-record-stays-out-of-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/eddie-nketia-runs-100m-in-9-74s-but-australian-sprint-record-stays-out-of-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Nketia runs 100m in 9.74s but Australian sprint record stays out of reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>USC athlete dominates field with illegal 5.6m\/s tailwind<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sprinter has twice run faster than Patrick Johnson\u2019s 9.93s<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australian sprinter Eddie Nketia has clocked a staggering 100m time of 9.74 seconds at a college meet in the US \u2013 but it won\u2019t count for record purposes because of a howling tailwind.<\/p>\n<p>Nketia, who recently swapped his allegiance from New Zealand to Australia, did the 100m\/200m double for the University of Southern California at the Big Ten Track and Field Championships in Nebraska on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/18\/eddie-nketia-100m-australian-sprint-record-close\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC athlete dominates field with illegal 5.6m\/s tailwind Sprinter has twice run faster than Patrick Johnson\u2019s 9.93s Australian sprinter Eddie Nketia has clocked a staggering 100m time of 9.74 seconds at a college meet in the US \u2013 but it won\u2019t count for record purposes because of a howling tailwind. Nketia, who recently swapped his &#8230; <a title=\"Eddie Nketia runs 100m in 9.74s but Australian sprint record stays out of reach\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/eddie-nketia-runs-100m-in-9-74s-but-australian-sprint-record-stays-out-of-reach\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eddie Nketia runs 100m in 9.74s but Australian sprint record stays out of reach\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}