Saints Athletics: Aidan Murphy (FRR 2020) | News - SPOC Connect
Aidan Murphy (FRR 2020) a rising star of Australian track and field.
spocconnect.com.auHere’s the latest I could verify about Aidan Murphy’s 400m time:
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At the Oceania Athletics Championships in Darwin (May 2026), Aidan Murphy ran a personal-best 44.44 seconds in the 400m, placing him very close to the Australian record and moving him to second on the all-time Australian list at that distance. This performance was reported as one of the standout moments of the meet and showed he’s near the national record, which has stood since 1988. [source: Athletics Australia coverage of the Darwin meet; Australian Olympic Committee recap][1][6]
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Additional contemporaneous reports also highlighted that Murphy’s 44.44 is the second-fastest Australian 400m time ever recorded, confirming the near-record status and his ongoing progress in 2026.[2]
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For broader context, Murphy’s profile pages and recent results from national and Oceania competitions corroborate that he’s been among Australia’s leading 400m runners in 2025–2026, with PB improvements across the sprint events and a focus on the 400m at major meets.[3][4][6]
If you’d like, I can pull up the original articles or official meet results to give you exact heat times, wind conditions, and PB progression. I can also compare his time to the Australian record (44.00 by Darren Clark in 1988) and show how close he is, with a short chart.