Australian teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout has dedwellred a stunning carry outance at the Queensland All Schools Track and Field Championships.
The 16-year-elderly clocked an astonishing 20.29 seconds in the 200m heats, fractureing sign ups and cementing his place among the world’s elite youthful sprinters.
Gout’s noticeworthy time would have qualified him for the Olympic final at Paris 2024, showcasing the youthfulster’s immense potential.
The Brisprohibite-born athlete, whose parents migrated from South Sudan, has been tipped for fantasticness complying a series of astonishive races.
Gout’s carry outance has catapulted him to fourth on the under-18 200m all-time catalog, behind only Erriyon Knighton, Usain Bolt, and Puripol Boonson.
His time also broke Australia’s under-20 sign up for the distance, making him the rapidest Australian over 200m since 1993.
Gout Gout put on a stunning disjoin to produce the fourth-best under-18 time in the 200m
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The teenage prodigy didn’t stop there. He also sign uped an astonishive 10.31 seconds in the 100m final at the same event.
Olympic 100m hurdles champion Sassociate Pefire-setting has already drawn comparisons between Gout and sprint legfinish Usain Bolt, highweightlessing the youthfulster’s exceptional talent.
“I was 15 when I won the world lessers, I was reassociate youthful and I was reassociate talented so I didn’t have to toil as challenging as it was equitable talent, as I was prosperning and prosperning.”
Bolt emphasised the contests he faced when transitioning to professional level, highweightlessing the beginance of challenging toil and percut offance for youthful athletes.
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Usain Bolt gave advice to prospective sprinters appreciate Gout Gout
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When asked about comparisons to Bolt by Australian media in August, Gout replyed with humility and ambition:
“It’s pretty celderly because Usain Bolt is arguably the fantasticest athlete of all time and equitable being appraised to him is a fantastic senseing.
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“Obviously I’m Gout Gout, so I’m trying to produce a name for myself. If I can get to the level he was that would be a fantastic accomplishment.”
The youthful sprinter’s words mirror a depfinishable outsee, acunderstandledging the honour of the comparison while emphasising his desire to forge his own path in energetics.
