The Queensland teenager justified the hype in the heats at the Australian All Schools Championships with a new personal best of 10.04 seconds
Gout Gout wins his U18 100m heat in 10.04 seconds with a +3.4 tail-wind at the 2024 Australian All Schools Athletics Championship in Brisbane.Gout Gout wins his U18 100m heat in 10.04 seconds with a +3.4 tail-wind at the 2024 Australian All Schools Athletics Championship in Brisbane.
Gout, who turns 17 at the end of December, rocketed to the line in just 10.04s to comfortably win his heat and beat the Australian under-18 record of 10.27s held by Sebastian Sultana. An illegal tailwind of 3.4 m/sec on Friday means the previous record still stands, but Gout’s spectacular time also smashed his personal best of 10.29s and is the fourth-fastest in all conditions by an Australian of any age.
He’s 16 and hyped as Usain Bolt’s successor – but Australia’s Gout Gout is keeping his feet on the groundPatrick Johnson holds the national 100m record of 9.93s set in 2003 at a meet in Japan and is the only Australian to run into the promised land of a sub-10 second 100m. Rohan Browning is now the only other Australian to clock faster times than Gout after running 10.01s in 2021 and 10.02s last year.
Gout will have another shot at breaking the 10-second barrier and joining US athlete Erriyon Knighton as the only under-18 sprinter to go under the mark when the 100m final is held later on Friday afternoon. The American ran the distance in 9.99s with +2.7 m/s wind assistance at the age of 17 in 2021.gets the crowd roaring with a spectacular though windy 10.04 performance in his U18 100m Heat - the fourth fastest time in all conditions by an Australian in history.
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