Breen blitzes

Eighteen-year-old Melissa Breen (ACT) has run the fastest Australian 100m time of 2008, clocking 11.33sec (+1.9) at an inter-club meet in Canberra on the weekend.

In her first 100m run for the current season, Breen sliced 0.13 seconds off her personal best, and posted her first World Championships B qualifier in the process.

Breen is now the No. 1 ranked female sprinter in the country for 2008, taking over from Olympic 100m Hurdles silver medallist Sally McLellan who recorded 11.41 earlier in the year.

Training partner Lauren Boden also took advantage of the favourable conditions, to break the 12-second barrier in the 100m for the first time, crossing the line in 11.83.