Australia's Rising Stars to Double Down on Day Two | Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Athletics Championships

The party is just getting started in Brisbane and a star-studded cast including sprint sensation Gout Gout and fellow World Under 20 medallist Mason McGroder is in the house for Day Two of the 2024 Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Athletics Championships where history awaits.

Gout (QLD) stole the show on Day One of competition with a dazzling 10.04 (+3.4) performance to confirm his title as the fastest schoolboy in the country, but it is his 200m prowess that has caught the eyes of the world.

The 16-year-old is now ready to rumble in his pet event fresh off an Australian Under 20 record of 20.29-seconds last month, which doubles as the fourth fastest time in history by an Under 18 athlete – while his windy 10.04-second run over 100m serves as an ominous warning that lightning may strike the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre once more.

Also doubling back after roaring to gold in the Under 17 Girls’ 100m, Thewbelle Philp (QLD) will look to double down on her recent personal best of 23.21-seconds over the 200m distance, while Amaya Mearns will (QLD) will be charging late in a bid to even the ledger after silver in the 100m.

Long jumper Mason McGroder (NSW) became Australia’s youngest World Under 20 medallist at just 15-years-old in Lima, Peru with a 7.80m leap to secure bronze – now turning his attention to Brisbane where he will contest the Under 17 event.

McGroder will look to close in on the elusive eight-metre barrier and Australian Under 18 record of 8.01m, but first on his list will be the meet record of 7.50m as he prepares for takeoff as one of the biggest names at the Championships.

Paralympian Telaya Blacksmith (NSW) reigned supreme in the Under 20 Para 100m event on Day One of competition as she builds on the momentum of her Paris 2024 success, but the 16-year-old will edge closer to her pet event of the 400m when taking on the 200m today – competing in the T20 classification for athletes with an intellectual impairment.  

In the Under 17 Para ranks, Abbie Peet (NSW) will be a name to watch as a T36 competitor with balance and coordination impairments, following in the footsteps of Mali Lovell who claimed Paralympic bronze in Paris in the 200m T36.

Fresh off her victory in the Under 18 Triple Jump to open her All Schools campaign, Izobelle Louison-Roe (NSW) will remain in the sandpit for the Long Jump on Day Two of competition where she holds a career-best of 6.13m.

Another victory would make it two-from-two as she builds towards the crescendo of her program in the form of the High Jump on Sunday – having soared to World Under 20 silver in Lima in August.

Already the Australian Under 16 record holder in the Javelin, Tallara Joseph-Riogi (NSW) returns to the fray in Brisbane where she will be out to extend that marker from the 51.69m it currently stands at – while the Championship record sits at 51.09m.

A pair of twins in the form of Khushnoor Rangi (VIC) and Sukhnoor Rangi (VIC) will pause family for rivalry in the Under 18 Girls’ Pole Vault, with little separating the two on paper as the number one and two seeds in the field – despite Khushnoor being the first to clear the four-metre barrier.

Adding to the Pole Vault action, Csenge Zsuzsanna Zsombor (NSW) will take flight in the Under 17 Girls’ event as the discipline enjoys an elevated profile in Australia off the back of Nina Kennedy’s Olympic gold medal.

Tickets can be purchased HERE, while full entry lists and live results can be found HERE.

Interstate viewers can view the livestream live and free from 10:00am local time HERE.

By Lachlan Moorhouse, Athletics Australia
Posted 6/12/2024