Australia’s newest sprint star Charlotte Ehioghae demolishes field in crushing 100m win – Teen sprint sensation Charlotte Ehioghae went viral again on Sunday after delivering a second dominant performance in as many days. The 14-year-old Perth prodigy overcame a tough -1.5m/s headwind in the final of the Under-16 girls’ 100m at the Australian Junior Athletics Championships in Brisbane on Monday, where conditions made fast times difficult.
Despite the challenge, Ehioghae produced a commanding run, stopping the clock at 11.60 seconds to complete a remarkable sprint double and further cement her rising reputation.
With a long, graceful stride, high knees and arms pumping with power, the West Australian wonder opened up a lead over the first 40m and only widened the gap on her rivals from there.
Ehioghae (11.60) was far too quick for the second-placed Tannah Hildebrand (12.01) and third-placed Jayla Olm (12.04).
Despite the awful headwind Ehioghae faced, she fell just .15 of a second short of the under-16 national record – the 11.45 (+1.3) set by another gun Perth sprinter, Emilia Reed, at last year’s national junior championships. Ehioghae’s 100m personal best is 11.47.
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Her 100m blitz follows a record-breaking run over 200m on Sunday in which she clocked 23.07 seconds to become the second-fastest under-18 Australian in history behind the legendary Raelene Boyle, not including hand-timed results.
A video of her 200m run posted on X by Australian Athletics (AA) has racked up just shy of 50,000 views, while the video posted by AA on Instagram has reeled in 70,000 views.
Ehioghae, born and raised in Perth to Nigerian parents, said she felt “really good” about her dominant 100m win but admitted she wasn’t at her best.
“I think I could have done way better, but the 200m kind of made my body like really tight because this is not my PB [personal best] at all,” Ehioghae told Wide World of Sports.
“At least I can actually have a wind-legal time, which is all that matters, and I got gold, so that’s good.
“All the training efforts, all the hard work – it’s all worth it in the end.”
She said it felt “really great” to have gone viral.
“It’s honestly amazing,” she said.
“It just makes me want to work even harder so I can run 100 per cent and become like way, way better.”
She has her sights firmly fixed on the Brisbane 2032 Olympics, by which point she will be 20.
“Yeah, definitely, 100 per cent. That’s my goal right now, training up to that,” she said.
“I’ll be 20 then, I’ll be out of school, I’ll be able to train more and put in more effort. I’ll put in the work and school will finally be done.”
She also said she wanted to get her 100m personal best down to 10.7 seconds in her teenage years, which would take more than three tenths of a second off sprint sensation Torrie Lewis’ open-age national record – the 11.08 she clocked at the Tokyo world championships last year.
The under-18 national record is Leah O’Brien’s 11.14, which the West Australian ran at last year’s national junior championships to break a record set by Boyle at the 1968 Olympics.
“I want to run a 10.7 as a teenager,” Ehioghae said.
“I’m always working hard so I can be up to level with them [Lewis and O’Brien], and maybe even one day race them.”
It’s remarkable that Ehioghae is already aiming for a 10.7-second 100m as a teenager. To put that into perspective, the under-18 world record stands at 10.98 seconds, set by the USA’s Candace Hill in 2015.
Her inspiration is fellow teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout, the Ipswich prodigy who recently made history in Sydney by becoming the fastest teenager ever over 200m.
Athletic excellence clearly runs in the family. Ehioghae’s mother, Esther Aghatise, represented Nigeria in the long jump at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where she finished seventh.
Her 16-year-old brother Paul is also a standout sprinter, boasting personal bests of 10.49 seconds in the 100m and 22.13 seconds in the 200m, while her 12-year-old sister Emmanuella has already posted impressive times of 12.01 seconds and 24.21 seconds respectively over 100m and 200m.
Another Australian teen phenom!!🤯
14-year-old Charlotte Ehioghae 🇦🇺 clocks 23.07s (0.3) over 200m in the U16 Girls 200m at the Australian Junior Championships!pic.twitter.com/McT2SFqbrv
— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) April 19, 2026