Nicholas Hough is an Australia

Australia

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n sprinter

Sprint (race)

Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...

 and hurdler

110 metres hurdles

The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

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At the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

2010 Summer Youth Olympics

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 in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, Hough won the 110 metres hurdles

Athletics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' 110 metre hurdles

These are the results of the boys' 110 metres hurdles event at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.-Medalists:-Heats:-Final C:Wind: +0.2 m/s-Final B:Wind: 0.0m/s-Final A:Wind: +0.1 m/s-References:******...

 in a new personal best of 13.37 seconds. He narrowly edged ahead of Dongqiang Wang of China and Jussi Kanervo of Finland to take the Gold Medal and become the first ever Youth Olympic Games

Youth Olympic Games

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 hurdles champion.

Hough also competed in the Pirtek All-Stars Gatorade

Gatorade

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 Bolt meet at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre on 15 September 2010. The event was a promotional visit for the Jamaican Sprint King Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt

The Honourable Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, C.D. , is a Jamaican sprinter and a five-time World and three-time Olympic gold medalist. He is the world record and Olympic record holder in the 100 metres, the 200 metres and the 4×100 metres relay...

, and took place on the 10th anniversary of the Sydney Olympics. Nick won the David Baxter

David Baxter

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 memorial 100m in a time of 10.62s, half a second quicker than the fastest men in football, Lachie Turner, John Grant

John Grant

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 and Jarryd Hayne

Jarryd Hayne

Jarryd Lee Hayne is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Parramatta Eels of the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian, Fiji international representative winger and fullback, he has played his entire NRL career to date with Parramatta, with whom he got to the...

, the fastest of whom clocked 11.10s on the night.

He is currently studying Year 12 at The King's School, Parramatta where he is the School Captain.

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