'Flying Mullet' set to face world's fastest man

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The fastest antheral successful the satellite is acceptable to gaffe his spikes connected and unleash successful Australia.

The USA's Fred Kerley, the reining 100m satellite champion, is entered successful the 200m astatine Melbourne's inaugural Maurie Plant Meet, scheduled for the nighttime of February 23 astatine Lakeside Stadium.

He'll quadrate disconnected with "The Flying Mullet", Australian cult leader Rohan Browning.

Athletics Australia had hoped to pull box-office athletes down nether aft the Maurie Plant Meet joined the Continental Tour Gold series, which is 1 rung beneath the Diamond League series.

The event, named successful honour of Australian athletics stalwart Maurie Plant, volition connection $200,000 successful prizemoney and higher satellite ranking points than its predecessor, the Melbourne Track Classic.

The upgrade has enticed Kerley to participate the Peter Norman Memorial 200m.

"I americium excited to commencement my play successful Australia and I volition besides usage this arsenic a grooming basal for the upcoming season," the 27-year-old Kerley said.

"I person competed successful each the different continents and I americium excited to get the accidental to vie successful Australia.

"Also, it is bully to unfastened my play with the 200m due to the fact that I got injured successful the 200m semi-finals astatine the satellite championships.

"All successful all, I americium excited to travel and amusement my endowment to the Australian people."

Kerley has a 100m idiosyncratic champion of 9.76 seconds, 200m PB of 19.76 and 400m PB of 43.64.

He pipped chap American Marven Bracey for golden successful past year's satellite championships 100m, which followed a silver-medal tally down Italy's Lamont Jacobs successful the Tokyo Olympics 100m.

The 25-year-old Browning, who volition articulation chap Australians Calab Law and Aidan Murphy successful the 200m, hyped up the showdown.

"Let's conscionable accidental that if I was a Melbourne-based sports fan, I wouldn't beryllium missing this," Browning said.

"Hopefully the large match-ups volition gully large crowds.

"Any 'fit' genitor successful Melbourne volition beryllium taking their kids to Lakeside (Stadium) connected the evening of the 23rd of February!"

Browning has a 200m PB of 20.71, Law 20.42 and Murphy 20.41.

Law said helium was thrilled to look Kerley astatine Albert Park.

"It gives america much vulnerability to the remainder of the satellite and helium is the champion successful the satellite astatine the moment, truthful it's going to beryllium fun," the 19-year-old Law said.

"We get to measurement our velocity against him and I volition beryllium doing everything I tin to bushed him.

"It's conscionable specified a large accidental for athletes astatine my signifier of improvement to get to tally against the champion sprinter successful the world."

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