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- Australian teen sprining sensation Gout Gout has recorded a time of 19.67 seconds over 200m.
- He’s the primary Australian to legally break the 20-second mark.
Gout Gout has obliterated his personal nationwide 200m document with a shocking sub-20 run that may simply have outpaced Usain Bolt on the identical age.
The 18-year-old ran 19.67 on the nationwide athletics championships at Sydney Olympic Park to change into the primary Australian to legally break the 20-second mark over 200m on Sunday.
Gout blitzed Jamaican legend Bolt’s under-20 document of 19.93 set in 2004, and is simply 0.02 seconds off the all-time under-20 document run by American Erriyon Knighton in 2022.
The Queenslander additionally smashed his personal nationwide document of 20.02 in his title defence, a mark additionally bettered by runner-up Aidan Murphy (19.88) on Sunday.
It’s simply the newest document set by the much-hyped teenager, who broke Peter Norman’s 56-year-old Australian 200m mark when he clocked 20.04 seconds in 2024.
Gout had run 19.84 with an unlawful tailwind in Perth final yr to be topped nationwide 200m champion for the primary time.
“I have been chasing it ever since I acquired that unlawful sub-20,” Gout stated on Sunday.
“It has been on my thoughts this entire yr and these previous couple of months.
“For the previous week, in my head, I’d inform myself I am operating 19.75, and clearly 19.67, so, you understand, gotta like it.”
Gout stated his scorching run in Sydney was a press release to the athletics world.
The 18-year-old pulled out of the Commonwealth Video games to give attention to the 200m on the world under-20 championships in Oregon, which begin on August 5, three days after the Video games finish.
Gout will likely be out to lift the stakes once more in Oregon, given dash king Bolt had kicked off his record-breaking profession with 200m gold on the 2002 world juniors.
“It is a massive weight off my shoulder realizing that I ran it legally, and I’ve the pace and physique to run occasions like that,” Gout stated.
“I am nonetheless solely 18, simply turned 18, so I undoubtedly assume I can go quicker for certain.”
Gout’s nice rival Lachlan Kennedy wasn’t within the 200m discipline, withdrawing from the occasion after operating 9.96 for the second time in as many days to win his first nationwide 100m title on Saturday evening.
“I used to be very itchy (watching Kennedy) for certain. Clearly props to Lachie,” Gout stated.
“He informed me it is all me, so I did my factor for certain.”
In different outcomes on Sunday, middle-distance star Jessica Hull (15:13.21) claimed victory within the 5000m after withdrawing from the 800m as a result of soreness.
Hull had misplaced her 1500m title to Claudia Hollingsworth after tripping whereas attempting to defend a problem from the 20-year-old rising star.
Hollingsworth was pipped on the ultimate straight within the 800m closing on her twenty first birthday, outpaced by back-to-back winner Abbey Caldwell (1:58.57).
Defending excessive bounce world champion Nicola Olyslagers cleared 1.99m on her third try to assert victory, with Eleanor Patterson (1.93m) settling for second.
However pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall endured a nightmare outing and did not make a top.
Two-time world champion bronze medallist Marschall fell in need of 5.46m at three makes an attempt, with Jack Downey (5.24m) taking victory.
Peter Bol held off a problem from teen Luke Boyes to win his fifth-straight nationwide 800m title in 1:45.60, prevailing by 0.13 seconds.
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