Gout Gout has already put the athletics world on discover along with his astonishingly fast occasions seeing him in comparison with dash icon Usain Bolt, and the Australian teen hit yet one more milestone this week
Australian sprinting sensation Gout Gout has hit again after being defeated by his compatriot Lachlan Kennedy, by beating the 10-second barrier for the 100 metres, not as soon as, however twice on the identical day.
Nonetheless, Gout’s beautiful time of 9.99, coming on the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth on Thursday, was clocked with a tailwind that was thought of unlawful, and subsequently will not go into the official file books.
Whereas his first-round warmth within the Beneath-20 males’s class was dominated out, he later repeated the feat within the ultimate afterward. But that sprint additionally branded as an unlawful dash.
Solely runs with a 2m/second tailwind or much less are thought of authorized, and the three.5m/s tailwind for the warmth meant Gout’s first profession sub 10-second run did not depend. The tailwind throughout the ultimate was 2.6m/s.
His emphatic response on the observe got here as Gout’s 200m run of 20.30s wasn’t sufficient to beat Kennedy, 21, on the Pete Norman Memorial in Melbourne on the finish of March. The 60m specialist was in elegant kind as he blitzed the race in 20.26s, to take the gold.
Nonetheless, Gout’s reply at Perth is telling, with the teen already acclaimed for breaking Usain Bolt’s file for the quickest time within the 200 metres by a 16-year-old.
Gout’s official private greatest within the 100m stays at 10.17 seconds, nevertheless at simply 17 years, three months, and 13 days outdated there’s expectation that he might break yet one more of Bolt’s occasions.
Bolt broke the 100m barrier on Might 3, 2008, when he clocked 9.76 seconds at a meet in New York Metropolis, when he was 21 years, 256 days outdated.
But with Gout already operating 9.99 and being considerably youthful than Bolt was when he eclipsed the barrier, it is seemingly that, ought to the teen sustain his beautiful kind, he might effectively topple one other of the enduring Jamaican’s data.
The present youngest to do it’s US athlete Christian Miller who stormed to time of 9.93 on the Pure Athletics Spring Invitational in Clermont, Florida in April 2024 when he was 17 years, 11 months, and 5 days, which means Gout nonetheless has a brief period of time to change into the youngest ever to come back in underneath 100m.
Ought to he pull it off, on an official foundation, it means he would change into simply the second Australian to take action. Patrick Johnson was the primary, clocking 9.93sec in Japan again in 2003, nevertheless, Johnson was 30-years-old on the time of smashing the barrier.
Regardless of his astonishing achievement, the teen could not disguise his disappointment that two runs have been dominated out. “It does not really feel very particular,” he stated.
“I imply, that is the stuff you must do to get to the following stage. Sub 10 was inevitable. Typically it is irritating, however you possibly can’t management what you possibly can’t management, and the wind is one thing you possibly can’t management.”
Even when Gout does not handle it there’s a perception that a number of younger Australian sprinters are about to announce themselves in a serious approach on the world stage on the subject of the 100m.
Alongside Gout and Kennedy, Paris Olympics semi-finalist Rohan Browning, 27, who has clocked 10.01, 19-year-old Sebastian Sultana, 10.11, and Joshua Azzopardi, 25, who has got here in at 10.06 are all seen as main contenders to smash the barrier and convey the nation to the forefront of sprinting.
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