Australia's newest sprint star Charlotte Ehioghae demolishes field in crushing 100m win

Teen sprint phenom Charlotte Ehioghae went viral on Sunday. After a second demolition job in as many days, the 14-year-old Perth prodigy is sure to rock the internet again.

Faced with a nasty -1.5mps headwind in the final of the under-16 girls 100 metres at the Australian athletics junior championships on Monday, producing another record-breaking run in Brisbane was nigh on impossible.

But Ehioghae crushed her competition, clocking 11.60 seconds to seize the sprint double.

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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.

Her 100m blitz follows a scintillating 200m on Sunday in which she clocked 23.07 seconds to break her age group's championship record and become the second-fastest under-18 Australian in history behind the legendary Raelene Boyle, not including hand-timed results.

Ehioghae, who has Nigerian heritage, 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," she 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."

A video of her 200m run posted on X by Australian Athletics (AA) has racked up 56,000 views, while the video posted by AA on Instagram has reeled in 76,000 views.

An X account called Track & Field Gazette also posted her 200m run and that clip is up to 39,000 views.

Ehioghae 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 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 incredible that Ehioghae is hoping to run a 10.7 as a teenager. For context, the under-18 world record is 10.98, set by the USA's Candace Hill in 2015.

Ehioghae's idol is Gout Gout, the teen sprint megastar from Ipswich who in Sydney last Sunday became the fastest teenager in world history over 200m.

The Ehioghae family is rich in athletic talent.

Ehioghae's mother, Esther Aghatise, represented Nigeria in long jump at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, finishing seventh.

And Ehioghae's 16-year-old brother Paul has personal bests of 10.49 (100m) and 22.13 (200m), while her 12-year-old sister Emmanuella has personal bests of 12.01 (100m) and 24.21 (200m).

Their mother and father are both Nigerian-born Australians. They met in Melbourne, relocated to Perth and started a family.