Sprinter, 16, who broke Usain Bolt record takes another crown by hitting new 31-year fastest time

Gout Gout has been mounting the athletics satellite alight this twelvemonth and the Australian teen was astatine it again arsenic helium broke a 31-year 200m grounds astatine the weekend

Gout Gout has smashed caller 200m records arsenic the teenage prodigy continues to gully comparisons to Usain Bolt connected the track.

The Aussie sprinter clinched the All Schools Queensland rubric implicit the weekend, but his vigor clip of 20.29 seconds truly turned heads. Gout, 16, first caught planetary attention erstwhile helium clocked 20.60 seconds to unafraid metallic astatine the U20 World Championships successful August, beating Bolt's grounds successful the aforesaid contention by 0.01 seconds.

Bolt ran 20.13 seconds astatine the aforesaid property arsenic Gout, but the teenager's caller show shows he's hot connected the heels of the Olympic legend's time. The young prima has enjoyed a memorable twelvemonth already, bagging the U18 Oceania rubric successful June, and continued mounting records successful Queensland.

Gout took location the All Schools Queensland title with a commendable 20.52 seconds successful the final, narrowly missing retired connected matching his earlier time. His erstwhile sprint of 20.29 seconds successful the heats broke the Queensland Open 200m clip and acceptable caller Australian and Oceanic U18 and U20 records.

It was the quickest 200m clip recorded by immoderate Australian since 1993, bringing him person to the nationalist grounds of 20.06 seconds held by Peter Norman since 1968. Gout's Queensland tally saw him bushed the Australian U20 grounds of 20.41 seconds and made him the fourth-fastest U18 200m sprinter ever.

Despite not turning 17 until the extremity of the year, Gout continues to acceptable age-group records. Last year, aged 15, helium smashed the Australian U18 200m record.

Gout besides won the 100m last successful Queensland with a clip of 10.31 seconds and is starting to crook heads globally. In October, the young jock inked his archetypal sponsorship woody with Adidas.

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While the 16-year-old has ambitions to surpass Bolt's clip of 20.13 seconds, helium inactive has immoderate region to screen to situation the elder world record. Bolt clocked an unthinkable clip of 19.19 seconds astatine the 2009 World Championships.

Meanwhile, Gout was conscionable 0.02 seconds disconnected equalling his idiosyncratic champion successful the 100m implicit the weekend. His grounds clip of 10.29 seconds ranks him 35th connected the U18 all-time list.

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