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Nicholas hough

17-year-old Nicholas Hough has had a whirlwind couple of months, winning Australia’ s first gold medal in athletics at the Youth Olympics in Singapore and demonstrating that he is half a second faster than the quickest men in rugby league at the Athletic All Stars meet. The Kings School athlete set a new NSW U18 record of 13.37 seconds in the 110m hurdles( 91cm heigh) at the Youth Olympics and ran 10.62 seconds – one hundredth of a second short of his personal best – in the 100m at the Athletic All Stars. Football’ s fastest man could only run 11.10 seconds. tessa craig

Diminutive Sandringham Athletics Club member Tessa Craig is a promising distance runner. The Haileybury College student recently won her first Australian title, taking out the national U18 cross country championship in Brisbane, having finished second last year.