Sprint sensation Gout Gout, 16, smashes another record as he looks to become next Usain Bolt

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A 16-YEAR-OLD sprint sensation has breached different grounds aft already moving faster than Usain Bolt this year.

Australian Gout Gout won the 100m and 200m astatine the All Schools Queensland Championship.

Gout Gout broke different grounds with an unthinkable display

He ran an unthinkable 20.29 successful the 200m heat, beating his competitors to the decorativeness enactment by a sizeable margin.

Gout Gout's clip was the quickest by an Australian for 31 years, portion helium besides broke Area Under-18 and U20 records.

He is present the 4th fastest Australian and 4th fastest U18 ever successful the 200m.

The teen went connected to assertion triumph successful the 200m last with a clip of 20.52 seconds.

Both of his 200m times are quicker than Bolt's erstwhile record for 200m astatine the U20 World Championships.

Gout Gout has besides ran 100m successful conscionable 10.2 seconds, starring to large expectations for his future.

He was signed by Adidas past week, penning a sponsorship woody with the sports covering brand.

However iconic US sprinter Justin Gaitlin has warned against comparing Gout Gout and different promising youngsters to a fable similar Bolt.

He said: "Looking astatine what Bolt did - and not taking thing distant from Gout Gout oregon anybody other that’s doing their happening close present and dominating.

“When Bolt was a junior, helium had the inferior satellite record, which astatine that constituent successful time, successful 2004, this dude ran 19 debased nine. 19.93 was his record, bro.

Watch 'ridiculous' infinitesimal 16-year-old sprint sensation Gout Gout runs 100m successful 10.2secs aft 'turning into Forest Gump'

"If you enactment that against these guys today, helium is eclipsing them.

"To accidental that this idiosyncratic is the adjacent and that idiosyncratic is the next, I consciousness similar we springiness the microphone to the bandwagoners.

“Stop putting these young athletes connected a way that comes with a batch of accent and comes with a batch of pressure. Let them spell retired determination and make themselves.

“If anything, fto them say, 'No, I’m Gout Gout, I’m astir to beryllium different. I’m [Letsile] Tebogo, I’m astir to beryllium different."

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