New Zealand sprinter and national 100m record holder Eddie Osei-Nketia has officially switched allegiances to Australia.<\/p>\n
Osei-Nketia\u00a0broke his dad Gus Nketia’s record<\/a>\u00a0at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, stopping the clock at 10.08 seconds. He came close to breaking the 10 second barrier\u00a0earlier this<\/a>\u00a0year.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old, who is based in the US, is now set to race for Australia.<\/p>\n Governing body Australian Athletics posted on Instagram to announce the news. “Welcome, Edward Osei-Nketia,” the post said.<\/p>\n “He has been lighting up Australian tracks for years but Edward Osei-Nketia is now officially eligible to represent Australia on the world stage, successfully completing his transfer of allegiance from New Zealand.<\/p>\n “The 10.08-second man joins the nation’s rising sprinting stocks. This is going to be fun.”<\/p>\n Osei-Nketia is also the New Zealand 200m record holder, bettering the mark with a 20.24s finish earlier this year at a meet in the US.<\/p>\n He also ran 9.96s over 100m at a college meet in Texas in April although it was wind-assisted.<\/p>\n He last represented New Zealand in 2022 at the World Champs and earlier this year Australian Athletics confirmed he had requested a transfer of allegiance.<\/p>\n Osei-Nketia moved to the US after leaving New Zealand and had a crack at American football in Hawaii, before getting back on the sprinting track for the University of Southern California in 2024.<\/p>\n He has been based in the US since.<\/p>\n Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Zealand sprinter and national 100m record holder Eddie Osei-Nketia has officially switched allegiances to Australia. Osei-Nketia\u00a0broke his dad Gus Nketia’s record\u00a0at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, stopping the clock at 10.08 seconds. He came close to breaking the 10 second barrier\u00a0earlier this\u00a0year. The 24-year-old, who is based in the US, is now set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15938,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936\/revisions\/15938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}