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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 November 2003 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprinting | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal bests | 60m: 6.43 (2025) AR 100m: 10.17 (2025) 200m: 20.93 (2023) 4 x 100m: 38.12 (2024) AR | ||||||||||||||
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Lachlan Kennedy (born 4 November 2003) is an Australian sprinter. He competed at the 2024 Olympic Games. In January 2025 he set a new national record over 60 metres. [1]
From Queensland, he played for Brisbane junior rugby union representative sides and played junior international rugby union for Australia before switching his focus to athletics. [2] [3]
He was a member of the Australian U20 4 x 100 metres relay team which broke the 12-year-old Australian U20 4x100m relay record in 2022 in a time of 39.30 seconds. He represented Australia at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. [2] In November 2023, he won the silver medal behind compatriot Calab Law at the 2023 Pacific Games over 100 metres in Honiara. [4] [5]
He was a member of Australia's 4x100-metre men's relay team at the 2024 Olympic Games that ran a time of 38.12 seconds to set a new Oceania record. [6] On 25 January 2025, in Canberra, he equalled the Australian record for 60 metres running a time of 6.52 seconds, and then later in the day set a new senior Australian record and Oceania record of 6.43 seconds (+1.6), the equal tenth fastest time in history. [7] [8]
On 26 January 2025 Kennedy set a new 100m PB with 10.17 s (-1.0m/s wind). [9]
In 2018 he was diagnosed with type one diabetes. He attended the University of Queensland to study Engineering and Design. [2] [10]
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