- Gout Gout comfortably received under-20s 100m last
- Glided throughout Brisbane observe, recorded a slick 10.38
- Younger gun will look to additionally declare 200m last on March 16
Teenage sprinter Gout Gout has continued his glowing kind following a head-turning efficiency on the Queensland Athletics Championships in Brisbane.
Three months after breaking the Australian 200m file on the identical observe, the rising star warmed up for the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne by claiming the state under-20 100m crown on Saturday.
He revealed he has been focusing on the meet on March 29 for one thing particular so he’s in the course of a heavy coaching block.
Nonetheless, the 17-year-old clocked 10.39 seconds right into a slight headwind in his warmth earlier than working 10.38 seconds within the last.
‘It is likely one of the prime 10 instances of my profession, so I couldn’t be happier,’ he mentioned put up race.
The Queensland sprinter set a wind-assisted 10.04 seconds private finest on the Australian All Faculties Championships in Brisbane final yr.
His prime authorized time is 10.17 which places him within the choice body for the world championships in Japan in September.
Gout just lately returned from a Florida coaching camp the place he educated with Olympic champion Noah Lyles and the American’s coach Lance Brauman.
Teenage sprinter Gout Gout has continued his glowing kind after successful the under-20 100m last on the Queensland Athletics Championships in Brisbane (pictured)
The 17-year-old clocked 10.39 seconds right into a slight headwind in his warmth earlier than working 10.38 seconds within the last
The positive factors he made in that transient stint weren’t a lot bodily.
He targeting including psychological muscle to an already spectacular mindset that has had to deal with extraordinary public focus.
Though nonetheless in highschool, he’s racing towards males, has signed a long-term sponsorship cope with sportswear big Adidas and faces huge expectation each time he competes.
The expertise with Lyles uncovered him to a larger-than-life character with a confirmed file for changing strain into stellar efficiency.
‘I simply learnt to be myself and observe my processes,’ Gout mentioned.
‘You are able to do all of the work on the planet, however when you’re in good psychological form you’ll be proper.’
Gout’s subsequent goal shall be his first 200m race of the season on the Queensland Championships in Brisbane on Sunday.
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Fast as a flash! Future Olympian Gout Gout blitzes his rivals at Queensland Athletics Championships
