Pearson set in nationals

THE most celebrated event in track and field and the sport’s biggest Aussie star share top billing at this weekend’s national championships in Sydney.

It’s a familiar position for Sally Pearson, who has carried Australian athletics pretty much on her shoulders for most of the past decade.

But not so much for the blue-riband men’s 100m.

Rising gun Rohan Browning heads a group of young speedsters who show so much promise that Patrick Johnson predicts his celebrated national record of 9.93 seconds will come under serious threat in the next couple of years.