After a nine-year senior career, one of the country's favourite sprinting sons has called time.
Rohan Browning retires straight off the back of Commonwealth Games relay gold in Glasgow, going out on top. Here are some things to keep in mind when reflecting on an amazing career:
🥇 His last race was anchoring Australia to Commonwealth Games 4x100m gold, holding off Andre De Grasse on the line. It was Australia's first gold in the event in 52 years.
🇦🇺 He was the first Australian man in an individual Olympic 100m since 2004.
⚡️ At Tokyo 2021, running from lane one, he beat former world champion Yohan Blake in 10.01, still the fastest 100m by an Australian at an Olympic Games.
🔥 He made the Olympic 100m semi-final, the first Australian man to do so since Matt Shirvington at Sydney 2000. That ended a 21-year wait.
🌏 He was Australia's first 100m representative at a World Championships in 12 years (Doha 2019).
🏁 He was the first Australian man in a Commonwealth Games 100m final since 2010, finishing 6th in Birmingham 2022.
🏆 Winner of four national 100m titles: 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025, every odd year for seven years. Only Josh Ross (7), Paul Narracott (6) and Matt Shirvington (5) have won more in the metric era.
⏱️ He ran eight-plus legal sub-10.10s. Before him, only Patrick Johnson, Shirvington and Ross had gone sub-10.10 at all.
🏟️ He set the fastest time ever run on Australian soil (10.05), then broke it himself (10.02), and held it until the next generation arrived.
🤏 His career was bookended by thousandths. At Gold Coast 2018 he missed a Commonwealth final by 0.001. At Perth 2025, aged 27 and with the hype elsewhere, he beat Lachie Kennedy for the national title by 0.005.
🇦🇺 He made every Australian team from 2017 to 2026. That's his proudest stat, and it's rare for a sprinter.
For most of a decade, he was the man. He was the standout between the Ross and Shirvo era and the new wave we're watching now. He was the conduit, the one who kept Australian sprinting relevant long enough for the next generation to believe it could go further.
Truly one of the favourites, an entertainer.