Gout Gout Waves Off Competition To Claim 100m Title At Australian Junior Championships

Gout Gout has blitzed nan section but fallen short of breaking nan 10-second obstruction while winning nan 100m astatine nan Australian athletics inferior championships successful Brisbane connected Saturday.

The 18-year-old took clip to get his centrifugal going earlier settling into his stride and chasing down nan leaders to transverse nan statement successful a clip of 10.21sec pinch a ineligible tailwind of +0.5m/s.

Gout near plentifulness successful reserve arsenic he eased up and waved to nan crowd earlier finishing up of Zavier Peacock who clocked 10.35sec. Queenslander Uwezo Lubenda burst retired of nan blocks and group nan gait early earlier coming successful 3rd successful 10.37sec.

The teenage phenom will soon caput overseas for his first elder athletics run which will see a showdown Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo successful nan Diamond League meet successful Oslo successful June.

A week aft rival Lachlan Kennedy made history by becoming nan first Australian to break nan 10-second barrier for nan 100m connected location ungraded – erstwhile doubly moving 9.96sec astatine nan nationalist championships – Gout chose not to target nan aforesaid milestone erstwhile easing up 30 metres from nan statement successful nan under-20 last connected Saturday afternoon.

Gout clocked a individual champion of 10.00sec complete 100m successful February, and antecedently ran a 9.99sec successful Perth pinch an excessive tailwind.

The teenage sprint sensation and Kennedy are some eyeing disconnected nan nationalist grounds of 9.93sec which Patrick Johnson has held since 2003.

Gout arrived astatine nan inferior championships successful red-hot shape aft taking retired nan 200m astatine past week’s nationals pinch a ineligible clip of 19.67sec – nan fastest charismatic under-20 clip connected grounds aft eclipsing Usain Bolt’s 19.93sec successful 2004.

He qualified fastest done nan heats aft clocking a 10.19sec connected Friday but did not purpose to amended nan people nan time after.

The Queenslander will skip nan Commonwealth Games this twelvemonth to attraction connected nan 200m astatine nan World Junior Championships successful Oregon successful August.

The teenage phenom and his squad will determine successful nan coming months whether to adhd nan 100m to his inferior championships program.

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