Teenager Gout Gout set a brand new Australian file with victory within the males’s 200m on his senior worldwide debut on the Golden Spike assembly in Ostrava.
The 17-year-old clocked 20.02 seconds in a extremely anticipated first European assembly within the Czech Republic.
The sprinter powered previous Portuguese-based Cuban Reynier Mena, who needed to accept second after successful the final two Diamond League 200m races.
Britain’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake completed third with a season’s greatest 20.60.
Gout has been in comparison with legendary eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt, and his 200m time in Ostrava was higher than that of Jamaica’s world file holder, who completed in 20.28 on his first Golden Spike meet in 2006.
Nevertheless, Gout is but to run a authorized time underneath 20 seconds, which Bolt achieved 4 months earlier than his 18th birthday with a 19.93 in Bermuda.
Gout’s earlier private greatest was 20.04, which he ran final December to interrupt Olympic silver medallist Peter Norman’s long-standing Australian file.
Gout has stepped as much as senior stage after dominating youth conferences.
He holds the Australian under-16 information in each the 100m and 200m, and final 12 months received the nationwide under-20 100m title earlier than securing a 200m silver medal within the World Underneath-20 Championships in Lima.
Following final 12 months’s victory within the 200m and 400m on the 2024 GPS Observe & Area Championships in his native Queensland, Gout turned skilled and signed a sponsorship take care of Adidas.
He’ll proceed his preparation for September’s World Championships by competing on the Monaco Diamond League meet at Stade Louis II on 11 July.
This 12 months’s World Championships can be held from 13-21 September in Tokyo, Japan.
