Another weekend, another Australian athletics record broken as a NSW junior 100m runner goes sub 10.30 and gold at the Judo Oceania Open highlights the action in Olympic sports.
Athletics
17-year-old Sebastian Sultana has become the fastest Australian junior athlete ever across 100m.
His time of 10.27 at the Illawong High Velocity event in Barden Ridge, NSW broke Jack Hale's 10.38 mark set in 2015.
Sebastian has been on a remarkable run of form, having improved from 10.53, to 10.42 and down to 10.27 so far this season.
Judo
The 2022 Oceania Open has come to a close after an exciting weekend of competition in Perth, as two Aussies came away as medallists.
Dual-Olympian Katharina Haecker won gold by defeating the Czech Republic's Renata Zachova in the -63kg final.
Aoife Coughlan, who made her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, claimed a silver medal in the women’s -70kg final after putting up a fight for gold against Slovenia's Anka Pogacnik.
Triathlon
Matt Hauser won the final event of the 2022 men’s Super League Championship Series in Neom for his second win of the season.
HAUSER WINS IN NEOM 🙌 #NEOMGames #SLTNEOM @NEOM pic.twitter.com/L8nMebKxU3
— Super League Triathlon (@SuperLeagueTri) October 29, 2022
The result cemented Matt as the second-best on the overall men’s triathlete season standings, only behind Hayden Wilde from New Zealand.
While back in Australia Ashleigh Gentle has continued her long-running reign at the Noosa Triathlon, notching up her eighth win in a row at the Sunshine Coast event in a time of 1:57.26.
Golf
Amateur Harrison Crowe has earned an invite to play in The Masters and the British Open next year after winning the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship with a one-shot victory in Thailand.
The 21-year-old carried a two-shot lead into the final day and managed to survive a wild final round, becoming the third Australian to win the event.
The Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship moves to Melbourne in 2023, to be played at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club from 26-29 October.
