'It is one of the top 10' - Gout Gout blitzes his rivals at Queensland Championships

Gout Gout blitzes his rivals at Queensland Championships

'It is one of the top 10' - Gout Gout blitzes his rivals at Queensland Championships

Evans Ousuru 20:26 - 15.03.2025

Sprint senastion Gout Gout was pleased to get off the mark in 2025 after winning the finals at the Queensland Championships.

Teenage sprinter Gout Gout oozed class at the Queensland Championships and once again underlined why the Australian is set for a bright future in sprints.

Gout Gout 17, in his first competitive race of 2025, clocked 10.39 seconds into a slight headwind in his heat before running 10.38 seconds in the final.

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After crossing the finish line first, Gout Gout was pleased with his performance, telling the Daily Mail "It is one of the top 10 times of my career, so I couldn't be happier." 

Gout Gout is coming off age, having trained with Noah Lyles and his coach Lance Brauman in Clermont, Florida in mid-January. Although still in high school, he is racing against men, has signed a long-term sponsorship deal with sportswear giant Adidas and faces enormous expectations every time he competes.

The experience with Lyles exposed him to a larger-than-life character with a proven record for converting pressure into stellar performance.

His career has been on an upward trajectory if his age-group performances are any barometer. The holder of the Australian under-16 100m and 200m records, Gout ran 10.57 seconds for the 100m as a fourteen-year-old in 2022. The following April, at the age of 15, Gout first broke the Australian under-18 men's 200m record.

He ran 20.87 seconds to win the under-18 men's 200m final at the Australian Junior Athletics Championships in Brisbane in April 2023. Gout ran a personal best time of 10.29s to win the U18 Boys 100m at the Queensland Athletics Championships in Brisbane, in March 2024. He won the Australian U20 100m title in Adelaide in April  last year, running a time of 10.48 seconds. 

Gout Gout was part of the Australian team for the U20 World Championships in Lima, Peru, where he won the silver medal in the 200m . At the 2024 Australian All Schools Athletics Championship in December, he ran a personal best time of 10.04 (+3.4 m/s) in the 100m to win his heat.

This time was the fourth fastest U18 time in the world and the fifth fastest all-time by an Australian. He backed this up by winning the final in 10.17 (+0.9 m/s), breaking the Australian U18 record which had been held by Australia’s reigning men’s senior champion Sebastian Sultana.

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