Record-breaking All Schools Athletics Championships in Brisbane

It was sprinting sensation Gout Gout who stole the show at the 2024 Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Athletics Championships, but with 38 meet records across the program – the nation’s rising stars stamped their claim as a golden generation ahead of Brisbane 2032.

Off the back of Australia’s most successful World Under 20 Championships campaign which saw 14 medals secured in Lima this August, the success rolled on in Brisbane with the nation’s school-aged athletes who had the record writers working overtime.

Led by an Australian Open 200m record of 20.04 (+1.5) from Gout (QLD) which eclipsed Peter Norman’s 20.06 mark from 1968, the 16-year-old also set an Australian Under 18 record of 10.17 (+0.9) in the 100m – along with a wind-assisted meet record of 10.04 (+3.4).

Taking down Paul Greene’s Australian Under 18 record from 1989, Terrell Thorne (QLD) blasted his way to a time of 45.64 over 400m to also eclipse Olympic finalist Steve Solomon’s meet record, while Ken Ferrante Tanikawa (SA) put his name alongside hurdling royalty when rewriting Sasha Zhoya’s Australian Under 16 Boys 100m Hurdles record in 12.59 (+2.0).

Adding to the Australian records, Cameron Badger (NSW) stopped the clock in 23.93 (+0.8) to set a new Under 16 record in the 200m Hurdles.

In the middle-distance ranks, Lucas Chis (VIC) clinched Michael Hillardrt’s Under 17 Boys 1500m meet record from 1977 in a time of 3:49.21, following in the footsteps of Hillardt who became the first ever World Indoor Champion over the distance in 1985.

A prodigious junior who clocked the Under 17 Boys 200m meet record in 1982 before making his Olympic debut in 1984, it took until the 2024 instalment of the championships for Fred Martin’s mark to be bettered by Tobias Drummond-Templeton (ACT). The Canberra product clocked 21.44 (+0.8) to better Martin’s 21.45 meet record, before a wind-assisted 21.22 (+2.8) in the final set a new standard once again.

In the Under 15 Girls ranks, Naomi Krajancic (NSW) blazed to a time of 54.49 over 400m to better Sophie Scamps’ meet record of 55.09 from 1985. Scamps would go on to claim World Under 20 gold in the Women’s 4x400m at the 1990 edition of the championships, and is now a member of Federal Parliament.

Seth Kennedy (QLD) served up a career-best run of 47.05 over 400m on his home track to land a new meet record in the Under 17’s, narrowly beating Miles Murphy’s 1983 performance which he clocked on his path to being crowned the first ever World Under 20 champion over 400m in 1986.   

Already etching his name into the history books as Australia’s youngest ever World Under 20 medallist at 15-years-old, Mason McGroder (NSW) rounded out his historic year with a new Under 17 Boys meet record in the Long Jump of 7.86m (+2.4). The performance bettered the 7.50m mark set by Indigenous prodigy Lynten Johnson in 1986, and equalled by World Under 18 champion Chris Noffke in 2004.

A complete list of all 38 meet records from the 2024 Chemist Warehouse Australian Athletics Championships can be found below, including the year that the previous record was set.

BOYS UNDER 18

100m – Gout Gout   QLD  10.04 w (2014)

200m – Gout Gout   QLD  20.38 w (2022)

Gout Gout   QLD  20.04  (2024)

400m – Terrell Thorne   QLD  45.64  (2010)

BOYS UNDER 17

200m – Tobias Drummond Templeton  ACT  21.44  (1982)

  Tobias Drummond Templeton  ACT  21.22 w (2024)

400m – Seth Kennedy   QLD  47.05  (1983)

1500m – Lucas Chis VIC 3:49.21  (1977)

2000m Steeplechase – Jonathan Neethling VIC 5:52.20  (1995)

Long Jump – Mason McGroder NSW 7.86 w (1986)

BOYS UNDER 16

100m Hurdles – Ken Ferrante Tanikawa SA  12.59  (2016)

  Cameron Badger  NSW  12.59 w (2024)

200m Hurdles – Cameron Badger  NSW  23.93  (2016) 

BOYS UNDER 15

200m – Kevin Da Silva   VIC  21.91 w (2022)

800m – Tate Van Camp VIC 1:55.01  (1987)

3000m – Cedar Johnson QLD 8:51.10  (2024)

BOYS UNDER 14

100m – Sioli Hifo   ACT  11.03  (2019)

Sioli Hifo   ACT  10.93  (2024)

90m Hurdles – James Atkins   NSW  12.08  (2006)

90m Hurdles – James Atkins   NSW  12.07  (2024)  

GIRLS UNDER 18

Pole Vault – Kushnoor Rangi VIC 4.05  (2017)

Triple Jump – Izobelle Louison-Roe  NSW  13.23 w (2013) 

GIRLS UNDER 17

100m – Thewbelle Philp  QLD  11.48 w (1993)

  Thewbelle Philp  QLD  11.38  (2024)

200m – Amaya Mearns  QLD  23.15  (2006)

Hammer Throw – Arielle Cannell   TAS  58.59  (2022) 

GIRLS UNDER 15

100m – Emelia Reed   WA  11.77  (1992)

Emelia Reed   WA  11.71  (2024)

200m – Emelia Reed   WA  23.64  (2008)

400m – Naomi Krajancic  NSW  54.49  (1985)

3000m – Eliza Lawton   NSW  9:28.69 (2024)

200m Hurdles – Alexia Mathison  NSW  27.83  (2008)

Triple Jump – Amalia Bond   NSW  12.42  (2008)

Shot Put (3kg) – Rebecca Howarth  ACT  14.33  (2022)

Javelin Throw – Sianna Adkins   TAS  50.68  (2022)

GIRLS UNDER 14

400m – Mia Wood   NSW   55.85  (2018)

1500m – Amelia Sheridan SA 4:24.69  (2023)

4x100m Relay – New South Wales  NSW  47.79  (2001)

By Lachlan Moorhouse, Athletics Australia
Posted 21/12/2024