EVERY five or so years, someone bobs up and becomes the anointed one. This time is it Josh Clarke who has grabbed the mantle of Australia's fastest man, a title that has gone through many hands over the past 20 years. 
Matt Shirvington owned it after he ran 10.03sec at the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games.
In 2003, Patrick Johnson snatched it away with an extraordinary 9.93sec performance before fizzling out and handing the baton to Joshua Ross who clocked 10.08sec in 2007.
He disappeared almost as fast as he had arrived and the search for Australia's fastest man stalled.
So desperate was the situation that all hope was flung on to Tasmanian schoolboy Jack Hale when he clocked a crazy wind-assisted 10.13sec.
Now there is Clarke, a 20-year-old university student from Sydney. Clarke's coach is 81-year-old Nancy Atterton, who won a gold medal at the 1954 Empire Games in Vancouver.
The pair met when he was in Year 7 at The King's School in Parramatta where she was the athletics coach.
Last year Clarke won his first national 100m title which put him on the radar, then last Saturday in Canberra he put his hand up.
A personal best 10.15sec to qualify for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics moved him to No.5 on the all-time list and anointed him as the latest incarnation of Australia's fastest man.
With that comes instant discussion about joining the magical sub-10sec club. "Sometimes if you think about times too much and get caught up, it can take away your focus," Clarke said.
"Obviously it's the same as the four-minute mile, the sub-10sec 100 is just one of those things in athletics, it's the Holy Grail I guess.
"It's every sprinter's dream and it might not happen this year but it's definitely my plan." Clarke described Shirvington as one of his idols and a reason why he chose the sport.
"As a young kid I was always watching Shirvington and Johnson and Ross when he was at the peak of his -powers.
"Those guys were running 10.0s and sub-10s then. I was most impressionable back then and they were making that regular and normal." Clarke calls himself a student of the sport and made the hard decision to turn his back on making his -Australian debut at last year's world championships team in Beijing.
"It was a pretty simple decision in my eyes," he said. "Running 10.19sec, in terms of world sprinting, it's not contending for anything too special.
"You're maybe looking at just getting out of the heats.
"I thought I would get more benefit out of staying home as I'm still young and still physically developing."He expects to go faster again at the Canberra Track Classic next week with his focus on producing a career best performance in Rio.