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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 September 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 100m: 10.11 (Perth, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Sebastian Sultana (born 15 September 2005) is an Australian sprinter. In 2024 he became Australian national champion over 100 metres. [1]
Sebastian Sultana is from Schofields in Sydney in New South Wales and attended St John XXIII Catholic College. He graduated as part of the class of 2022. [2] [3]
In July 2023 Sultana set a new Australian under-18 100 metres record with a run of 10.27 seconds in Sydney. [4]
In April 2024, he set a new 100m personal best time of 10.17 seconds to qualify for the final of the Australian Athletics Championships in Adelaide. In the final he ran a time of 10.27 seconds to win the Australian national title into a -1.2 metres per second headwind. [5] [6] [7]
He ran as part of the Australian 4 × 100 m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024, however he was unable to run due to injuries. World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas. [8] In June 2024, he was a silver medalist in the 100 metres at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships. [9] He was named in the Australian team for the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima. [10]
He was awarded a Sport Australia Hall of Fame awards scholarship in September 2024. [11]
He ran a personal best 10.11 seconds for the 100 metres at the Perth Classic on 1 March 2025. [12]
Sebastian also coaches at The Ponds Little Athletics Centre.
Sebastian is currently studying a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science at the Australian Catholic University. He has Maltese heritage through his father. [13]
