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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1137/
- Published: 2025-01-27T17:30:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-27T17:30:40.000Z
- Description: Whelpton smashed a 30-year-old New Zealand record.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, Sport

> Tiaan Whelpton had a feeling the 60m finalists at the ACT Championships in Canberra were set to post “some pretty crazy times”.  
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> The Kiwi sprinter’s hunch proved correct.  
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> Whelpton smashed a 30-year-old New Zealand record over the distance by crossing in 6.50s, achieving automatic qualification for the world indoor championships in China in March.  
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> The 24-year-old went well under the previous national mark of 6.59, set by Gus Nketia in 1995, and finished second to Australian runner Lachlan Kennedy (6.43) in Saturday night’s final.  
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> Whelpton earlier recorded a 6.52 in the heats but that time was discounted due to an illegal level of wind. He knew that if the conditions played their part, a fast track meant that time could be matched in the final.  
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> “Me and all the boys were just sitting there behind the line saying, ‘Please just give us a legal wind, because we know we’ll put on some crazy times’,” Whelpton told Newstalk ZB. “And man, oh man, did we.  
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> “When I heard \[Kennedy\] dropped a 6.43 and I wasn’t too far behind, I knew the times would be pretty quick. But in my mind, I was like, well, if you ran that quick, it must have been windy.  
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> “But to my surprise, the wind was only +1.6, so everything was totally legal. So I was over the moon. I was super stoked.”  
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> NZ Herald

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