Edward Osei-Nketia (born 8 May 2001) is a New Zealand sprinter.
Osei-Nketia is the son of Gus Nketia, the former New Zealand national 100 m record holder. In 2019, after winning the Australian national title at 100 m, he confirmed his national allegiance to New Zealand.[1] On 15 July 2022, he broke his father's the national record by running 10.08 at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon. Osei-Nketia spent his last secondary school years at Scots College in Wellington.
In June 2019, Osei-Nketia won the title of the 100 m at the Oceania Championships in Townsville.
On 28 September 2019 he came fifth in his heat of the first round of the 100m at the World Athletics ChampionshipsinDoha, Qatar with a time of 10.24s, missing out on a semi-final berth by 0.01s.[2] Osei-Nketia won the 2019 Australian Athletics Championships 100m in 10.22 after running a personal best of 10.19 in the semi-final.[3]
On 27 March 2021 he ran 10.12 in Brisbane, ranking him second on the New Zealand all-time list, 0.01 sec behind the National Record set by his father, Gus Nketia, in 1994,[4] and qualifying him by ranking for the 2020 Summer Olympics, but he was not nominated.[5]
At the New Zealand National Track and Field champs in 2019 Osei-Nketia won the senior men's 100m. He followed this in 2020 by winning both the senior 100m and 200m,[7] a feat he repeated in 2022.
