Matt Shervington

How good is Bruce?

The World Athletics Championships on the weekend in Sydney had those two highlights.

Excuse me.

And there's little doubt Australia is entering an athletics sweet spot and nicely timed too, I've got to say, ahead of LA 2028 and probably more pertinently Brisbane 2032.

Peter Boll, Jess Hull, Claudia Hollingsworth, just to name a few all marquee names already.

But nothing gets the juices flowing more than a sprinter.

And in Gout Gout and Lachlan Kennedy, we have two with extraordinarily high ceilings.

On Sunday, Gout Gout smashed his own national 200 metres record, becoming the first Australian to run under 20 seconds.

And Lachlan Kennedy became the first Aussie to break the 10-second barrier on home soil, running 9.96.

It really could be a golden age.

And there's no one better place to assess the landscape than Channel 7 Sunrise's host,

Matt Shervington, who won bronze in Kuala Lumpur and joins us 100 days out from this year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Shervo, good to have you on.

Oh, Tom, you don't need me.

You summed it up beautifully.

Well done.

We've got two Queensland sprinters that, as you said, by 2032 are going to be in their prime.

And who knows, like when you look back and you list some of the most iconic Australian Olympians of all time, you think someone like Dawn Fraser or

Ian Thorpe, Cathy Freeman and then you think to yourself why are they so good is it because they performed extremely well at a home Olympic Games in 56 in Melbourne and then of course 2000 in Sydney and

I just think someone like Gaut Gaut particularly, who's 18 years of age and will be a sprightly 24 years of age by 2032 comes around, we could see another icon in someone like him.