- Gout Gout shocks onlookers with blistering time
Australia’s teenage sprinting phenom Gout Gout has once again gone under the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres.
The 17-year-old shocked onlookers at a ‘low-key’ school event in Queensland on Friday night with a blistering – and unofficial – time of 9.94 seconds.
Gout had previously gone under the 10-second barrier in April while running at the Australian championships in Perth.
‘It’s a low-key event the GPS,’ Gout’s manager James Templeton explained.
‘But it’s good to get a run in, a nice little warm-up, and shows the form he is in for Tokyo in three weeks.
‘It was hand timed but it was a race effort, and that’s important in the weeks leading up to Tokyo.’
Gout Gout has once again gone under the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres (pictured in April)
The 17-year-old shocked onlookers at a school event in Queensland on Friday night with a blistering – and unofficial – time of 9.94 seconds
He will make his senior debut for Australia at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo next month.
‘I’m super excited to be picked to run the 200 in Tokyo at the world championships,’ said Gout.
‘That’s what we’ve been aiming for.
‘I’m looking forward to September being part of my first Australian senior team and looking forward to seeing what I can do against the best of the best.’
In January, Gout joined Noah Lyles at a training camp in the US and then cheekily called out the Olympic 100m champ on his podcast, saying he was coming for the American in Tokyo.
Gout has already tested himself on the national stage, reaching the semi-finals at the Stawell Gift in April.
Despite the global buzz, he’s still juggling schoolwork and sprint drills back home in Ipswich. He continues to study while dreaming big – of Brisbane 2032.
Gout hopes to claim double Olympic gold on home soil in the 100m and 200m.
