Patrick Johnson (sprinter)
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Patrick Johnson (born 26 September 1972 in Cairns, Queensland) is an Australian athlete, the son of an Indigenous Australian mother and an Irish father, who trains at the Australian Institute of Sport. He ran a speed of 9.93s over 100m in 2003 to become Australia's fastest person. [1] This also made him the first man not of West African descent ever to break 10 seconds over 100 metres.
Fluent in Cantonese, Indonesian and Japanese, for a while Johnson worked as an officer at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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