The teenage dash sensation shall be focusing on the Australian under-18 100m document of 10.27 in Brisbane
Gout Gout, the teenage dash celebrity that has garnered international consideration, will compete over 100m on the upcoming Australian All Colleges Championships (December 6-9).
The 16-year-old, who has already been in comparison with Usain Bolt at an analogous age, shall be focusing on the Australian under-18 100m document of 10.27 – held by Sebastian Sultana – in Brisbane this weekend.
If Gout can obtain that feat then he’ll maintain each Australian under-18 100m and 200m data.
Final month {the teenager} went fourth on the U18 200m all-time listing, courtesy of his 20.29 over on the Queensland All Colleges Observe and Discipline Championships.
Not solely was that ok for Gout to assert the nationwide under-20 document over half a lap however he turned the quickest Australian within the 200m since 1993.
Sebastian Sultana (Getty)
For Gout to be the Australian 100m under-20 record-holder, he’ll should run faster than 10.15, which Jake Doran clocked in 2018.
Gout first caught folks’s consideration two years in the past when he ran 10.57 for 100m and has since improved his private greatest by simply wanting three tenths of a second.
It’s over 200m the place he has made the most important influence although – this previous summer time Gout claimed an excellent silver medal over half a lap on the World Underneath-20 Championships in Lima, inserting behind South Africa’s Bayanda Walaza.
In keeping with The Guardian, Gout and his coach Di Sheppard, by way of their mutual sponsor Adidas, have additionally secured an invitation to hitch Noah Lyles and his coach Lance Brauman in Florida for a couple of weeks in January.
A full timetable will be discovered right here.
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