17-year-old Cameron Myers defeated 2022 World Champion Jake Wightman in a race set up as an assault on the Olympic qualifying standard.
Cover image by Fred Etter
Myers went within four-hundredths-of-a-second of his personal best, stopping the clock at 3:33.30 to take victory at The Crest. Running a 55.50 second final lap, Myers hit the lead with 300m to go and held on down the straight after Wightman and the fast finishing Jesse Hunt made challenges.
Hunt set a new personal best of 3:33.64 to fall just short of the Olympic qualifying standard of 3:33.50, while Wightman was third in 3:34.31.
Jye Edwards, who previously held the fastest performance by an Australian in Australia with his 3:33.99 victory at the 2021 Australian Championships, was fourth in 3:34.42, with national champion Callum Davies setting a new personal best in fifth at 3:35.14.
The top 11 places broke 3:40 on the night.
In other events Jaylah Hancock-Cameron took out the women’s 1500m in 4:14.63, Charlie Hunter won the 800m in 1:49.26 and Matilda Ryan the women’s race in 2:05.44. 400m runner Ian Halpin stepped up to win the 600m in 1:16.29 ahead of national 800m record holder Joseph Deng (1:17.06). Deng suffered a back injury during the race, which has forced his withdrawal from the World Indoor Championships on 1-3 March in Scotland.
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