The teenage dash sensation shall be concentrating 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 Faculties Championships (December 6-9).
The 16-year-old, who has already been in comparison with Usain Bolt at the same age, shall be concentrating 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 checklist, courtesy of his 20.29 over on the Queensland All Faculties Monitor and Discipline Championships.
Not solely was that adequate for Gout to assert the nationwide under-20 document over half a lap however he grew to become the quickest Australian within the 200m since 1993.
Sebastian Sultana (Getty)
For Gout to be the Australian 100m under-20 record-holder, he’ll need to run faster than 10.15, which Jake Doran clocked in 2018.
Gout first caught individuals’s consideration two years in the past when he ran 10.57 for 100m and has since improved his private finest by simply in need of three tenths of a second.
It’s over 200m the place he has made the most important impression although – this previous summer season Gout claimed an outstanding silver medal over half a lap on the World Beneath-20 Championships in Lima, inserting behind South Africa’s Bayanda Walaza.
In keeping with The Guardian, Gout and his coach Di Sheppard, by means of their mutual sponsor Adidas, have additionally secured an invitation to hitch Noah Lyles and his coach Lance Brauman in Florida for just a few weeks in January.
A full timetable might be discovered right here.
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