CORRECTION: River Pentecost finished off his trip to the Australian Junior Athletics Championships with a chestful of medals.
Pentecost won a silver medal in the Men's Under 16 200 metre sprint on Saturday afternoon behind familiar Victorian rival Aaron Leferink.
Pentecost's last event was the Men's U16 sprint, and though he finished first in 11.43 seconds after a false start on his part. A protest was lodged and a technical review was conducted.
Family friend Robert Burling said the error resulted in a disqualification for Pentecost.
The Delungra 14-year-old who ran for NSW returns to current Hunter Sports High School with two gold and two silver medals for his five events.
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LOCAL track teen River Pentecost, known best as River Melia, has captured gold a second time at the Australian Junior Championships in Perth, and but for a technicality, would have broken the standing Australian record.
The 14-year-old finished first in Friday's U16 Men's 100m Hurdles in 12.76 seconds. The existing Australian record is 12.08 seconds, set by Western Australian Jarrod Smith in 2006.
The initial call was a new national record for the age event, but the deciding factor of wind after the race meant the record remained unchanged.
Family friend Robert Burling said race officials instead awarded Pentecost an event record, which Burling thought would be confusing.
"I think people who look at the results when they are updated will be wondering why the meet record is faster than the Australian record," he said.
Aaron Leferink of Victoria came in at 13.08, with fellow Victorian Aiden Saluni-Kettle a whisper behind at 13.10.
Pentecost ran for his first gold on Wednesday in the in the U16 Men's 200m Hurdles with a time of 24.57 seconds,, 0.03 seconds behind the standing Australian record set by Jared Bezuidenhout of WA in 2005.
The Delungra runner joined teammates Mark Fokas, James Roach and Luke Trevillian in the U16 Men's 400m Relay on Thursday in second place, 0.20 seconds behind the Victorian team, which included hurdler Leferink.
Pentecost's final events are Saturday's U16 Mens 200m Sprint Finals and Sunday's U16 Mens 10m Sprint Finals.
The former Delungra Public School and Macintyre High School student is now studying at Hunter Sports High School.