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The numbers are stacking up for 20-year-old Cameron Myers. In Paris connected Sunday nighttime he smashed nan Australian 1500m grounds successful 3:28.00 – nan fastest clip successful nan world this twelvemonth and nan fastest ever tally by personification nether 21. He’s now 12th connected nan storied database of all-time 1500m times and 2 seconds disconnected nan world record.
Myers admitted nan Australian grounds was 1 he wanted to tick off. “I deliberation having that exterior unit connected yourself to get a time, benignant of takes distant from nan main portion of nan title and that’s winning. So, yeah, clearing that up [the record], I deliberation it’s going to beryllium immense going forward.” He managed to return nan grounds and win, up of French runner Azeddine Habz and nan British 2022 world champion, Jake Wightman.
The Canberra runner’s adjacent target is nan Commonwealth Games successful Glasgow, and an old-school mile title – nan first clip nan region has been tally astatine nan Games successful 60 years. There he will compete against chap Australian Olli Hoare, whose nationalist grounds he conscionable shattered.
Wightman is besides owed to tally nan mile successful Glasgow. But arguably nan biggest sanction successful nan mile title will behis chap Scot Josh Kerr, nan 2023 world champion and 2024 Olympic metallic medallist astatine 1500m. They are some competing connected location soil.
“I want to triumph and I want to put up a bully fight,” Myers said successful Paris. “So, moreover if I don’t win, I want to make judge that I make nan different guys activity arsenic difficult arsenic possible.”
Whatever happens successful Glasgow, Myers has put himself into nan speech for a badge astatine nan 2028 LA Olympics.
Myers started his moving travel astatine Belconnen Little Athletics Club erstwhile he was six years old. He told Australian Athletics that erstwhile he was 10, “I did my first cross-country nationals and I conscionable sewage smashed. I vanished 17th aliases thing and I went, ‘argh, I don’t want this to hap again, I really dislike losing.’”
Myers spent a ample portion of his puerility connected nan track, coached astatine 10 years aged by Lee Bobbin and renowned sports intelligence Dick Telford astatine 14. Bobbin told Australian Athletics: “Cameron has been fortunate each his profession because he has had personification amended than him to chase.” Now he is becoming nan runner starring and dictating races.
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Since graduating from Lake Ginninderra College successful 2024 he has raced relentlessly astatine mediate distance, competing successful nan 800m, 1500m and mile, 3000m and moreover nan 5000m, winning races astatine each distance. In 2023 he burst connected to nan segment arsenic nan second-youngest personification to break nan four-minute-mile obstruction and past a fewer months later clocked a 1500m astatine 3:33.26 – nan fastest ever by an under-18 athlete.
He met nan qualification modular for nan 1500m astatine nan 2024 Paris Olympics, while still a teenager, but nan Australian squad was constricted to 3 runners and he ended up fifth, losing mislaid retired to Hoare, Stewart McSweyn and Adam Spencer. He told GQ earlier this year that his Olympic snub successful 2024 “was a reliable pill to swallow initially, but I deliberation beyond that, it gave maine nan fire”.
Earlier this twelvemonth Myers ran an 800m successful 1:44.05 astatine nan Puma Nitro Lange Laufnacht (“Long nighttime of running”) successful Karlsruhe, Germany, successful a clip faster than Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Cole Hocker aliases Josh Kerr person ever managed. His 1500m clip successful Paris connected Sunday was 0.32 seconds faster than nan clip Ingebrigtsen managed arsenic a 20-year-old to triumph nan 1500m astatine nan Tokyo Olympics.
Myers has been transparent successful his admiration for his sporting leader Ingebrigtsen. “I emotion watching him triumph races and he looks for illustration he does it pinch ease.” With nan brace seemingly committing their short-term early to nan 1500m it seems nan boy from Canberra who grew up idolising nan Olympic golden medallist whitethorn yet statement up pinch him successful a Diamond League meet arsenic early arsenic this period successful London.
