Cooper Sherman

Cooper Sherman

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(2004-02-25) 25 February 2004 (age 21)
Sport
Sport	Track and Field
Event	400 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	400m: 45.26s (Perth, 2025)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  AUS Oceania Championships 2024 Suva 400 m World Relays 2025 Guangzhou Mixed 4×400 m relay

Cooper Sherman (born 25 February 2004) is an Australian sprinter. He won the Australian Athletics Championships over 400 metres in 2024 and 2025. ^[1]

Career

He is from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia and is a member of Ballarat Harriers Athletics Club. ^{[2] [3]}

He won the Australian Athletics Championships over 400 metres in April 2024. ^[4] He ran as part of the Australian 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2024. ^{[5] [6]} He was a silver medalist over 400 metres at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji in June 2024. ^[7]

He ran a new 400 metres personal best of 45.41 seconds at the ACT Championships in Canberra in January 2025. ^[8] He lowered it again, to 45.31 seconds at the Perth Classic in March 2025. ^[9] He was selected for the 400 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where he reached the semi-finals. ^{[10] [11]} He retained his title at the Australian Athletics Championships over 400 metres in a personal best time of 45.26 seconds on 12 April 2025. ^{[12] [13]}

He was a member of the Australian team in the Mixed 4 × 400 m relay at the 2025 World Athletics Relays which set a new Oceania record of 3:12.34, taking nearly five seconds off the previous best mark set in 2021, and became the first Mixed team in Australian history to qualify for a major championships, qualifying on the first day of the competition for the 2025 World Championships. Australia went on to win the silver medal in the final of the event on the second day of the competition as Sherman transferred across to help qualify the men's 4x400m relay for the 2025 World Championships in the second round of qualifying. ^{[14] [15]}

References

1. "Cooper Sherman". World Athletics. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
2. Jones, Shane (3 January 2024). "Cooper Sherman out to win 100m, 200m and 400m at Country Championships". Herald Sun. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
3. "COOPER SHERMAN BREAKS 38 YEAR 200M RECORD". Bracballarat. 8 February 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
4. Gliddon, Greg (April 14, 2024). "Five minutes of magic for Ballarat athletes at National Athletics Championships". The Courier. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
5. "4X400 METRES RELAY". World Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
6. Jones, Shane (9 May 2024). "Cooper Sherman unlikely to make Olympics with news better for Yual Reath". Herald Sun. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
7. "Little dominates javelin as championship records tumble at Oceania Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
8. Gliddon, Greg (January 26, 2025). "Sherman slays PB, but Martin's best 400m run also stuns at ACT titles". The Courier.com. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
9. Brehaut, Davids (March 3, 2025). "Cooper Sherman shines again in Perth Classic". The Courier.com. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
10. "WORLD CHAMPIONS AND EMERGING SPRINTERS NAMED ON AUSTRALIAN TEAM FOR WORLD ATHLETICS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". Athletics.com.au. 12 March 2025. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
11. "Cooper Sherman qualifies for world indoor 400m semi-finals". Thw Courier. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
12. "Australian Championships". World Athletics. 12 April 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
13. Snape, Jack (12 April 2025). "Torrie Lewis and Rohan Browning edge out rising stars in dramatic 100m finals". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
14. "Mixed 4x400m silver caps successful world relay championships for Australia". The Guardian. 12 May 2025. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
15. "AUSTRALIAN MIXED 4X400M RELAY TEAM PUNCH TICKETS TO TOKYO WITH OCEANIA RECORD". Athletics.com.au. Retrieved 10 May 2025.