Vaucluse Public ‘overwhelmed’ with pride as student sets record

Carey ran the race of her life to beat American Bella-Marie Black’s record, which had stood for almost a decade, by more than half a second.

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After seeing her incredibly feat, Nova 96.9 radio host Michael “Wippa” Wipfli told his co-hosts that he would easily be able to beat Carey’s time.

After all, he’s a grown man, so it should be easy to outpace a six-year-old, right?

“Now we’re going to see if your body can match what your mouth says,” said co-host Ryan “Fitzy” Fitzgerald ahead of the record attempt. “It’s your time to prove that a 45-year-old can run faster than a six-year-old.”

As Wippa made his way around the track, it became evident pretty quickly that he wasn’t able to keep up with Carey’s pace, and he ended up finishing the race with a time of over one minute.

Helena’s record was never in doubt.

Vaucluse Public principal Nicole Tainsh said the school was right behind their young athletics star following her world record.

“Our school community was overwhelmed with excitement and pride in the record-breaking success of Helena,” she said.

“Setting a world record for 300m at the age of six is worthy of a standing ovation,” Ms Tainsh said. “However, Helena has taken all the fuss gracefully in her stride. Success in anything is always due to working as a team and we know Helena took to this competition the values of fair play, integrity, and trying your best that are embedded at our school.”