THOMAS TURNS OUT MAGIC LAP IN CANBERRA
20 Jan 2009
TIS Scholarship holder Tristan Thomas became the fastest ever Tasmanian over 400m tonight at an Athletics Australia Allcomers meet in Canberra.
In wet and windy conditions, Thomas ran 45.86sec, to beat the previous mark of 45.99sec set by former Olympian Simon Hollingsworth back in 1992.
His past two performances had been within .10 sec of the record, but the Athletics Tasmania senior athlete of the year now finally holds his first Tasmanian open record after tonight’s run.
The performance was even more impressive, as he won the race, ahead of 2007 World Athletics Championships relay representative Kurt Mulcahy, who placed second in 46.57.
It has been a purple patch for the Commonwealth Games representative in recent weeks. Last month he ran the fastest time over 800m by a Tasmanian since Brendan Hanigan in the mid 1990’s and performed well at the Devonport Gift, during the Christmas Carnival period.
Tonight’s performance is one which will no doubt excite his Hobart support base, as the next race for the Sandy Bay Club athlete, will be the Briggs Athletics Classic at the Domain Athletics Centre next Friday. There, Thomas will run the event where he is the Australian champion, the 400m hurdles.