Armed with a new outlook, a new coach and the good vibes associated with the return to a favourite venue, Rohan Browning is ideally placed to give a stacked Australian team a fast start to the world athletics championships.

While the extraordinary Gout Gout and injured sub-10-second man Lachlan Kennedy have understandably hogged the sprinting headlines so far in 2025, Browning has been quietly putting together his best-ever season.

The narrowest of victories over Kennedy in an equal PB of 10.01 seconds at the national titles in Perth in April was just one of four legal sub-10.1 runs for the 27-year-old so far this year.

The Sydneysider is confident he can eclipse his previous-best showing at a global meet - a flying heat win in 10.01 at the Tokyo Olympics, in the same stadium that will

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