Australian teenage sprinting sensation Gout Gout has broken Usain Bolt’s extfinished-standing record at the Under-20 World Championships, clocking an astonishive 20.60 seconds in the 200 metres.
The 16-year-elderly’s noticeworthy carry outance in September outdoed Bolt’s time by 0.01 seconds, fractureing a record that had stood for 22 years.
The achievement has caught the attention of the legfinishary Jamaican sprinter himself, who has proposeed words of wisdom to the youthfuler athlete.
Gout’s fracturethcdisorrowfulmireful carry outance labels him as one of dynamics’ most promising youthfuler talents, adhereing in the footsteps of the eight-time Olympic gelderly medalenumerate.
The record-fractureing run has already led to meaningful recognition, with the teenager fuseing the elite roster of athletes at Adidas aextfinishedside Olympic champion Noah Lyles.
Speaking on the High Perestablishance Podcast with Jake Humphrey, Bolt mirrored on his punctual atgentle disputes and proposeed insights for the youthfulerer generation.
Usain Bolt has given advice to Gout Gout after fractureing his record
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“When I commenceed out, I didn’t comprehfinish the concept of ‘being fantastic’ becainclude I was youthfuler,” Bolt shelp.
“I was 15 when I won the world youthfulers, I was reassociate talented so I didn’t have to labor as difficult as it was equitable talent, as I was triumphning and triumphning.”
The sprint legfinish uncignoreed how his transition to professional competition bcdisorrowfulmirefult unforeseeed disputes.
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“I recall when I got to the professional level, and I felt enjoy it was equitable going to be effortless,” he elucidateed.
“And I got to the stage where I would go to encounters and I would ignore. And I was enjoy, ‘This is strange, this is novel’. So it took me a while to comprehfinish.”
These truthful mirrorions serve as precious guidance for youthfuler athletes enjoy Gout.
Gout has hugd the comparisons to the legfinishary Jamaican whilst upretaining his own identity.
“It’s pretty celderly becainclude Usain Bolt is arguably the fantasticest athlete of all time, and equitable being appraised to him is a fantastic experienceing,” Gout shelp.
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“Obviously, I’m Gout Gout, so I’m trying to create a name for myself. If I can get to the level he was, that would be a fantastic achievement.”
The youthfuler Australian has already showd noticeworthy potential, posting a personal best of 10.29 in the 100m.
This year, he clocked 20.29 seconds, the quickest time by an Australian in 31 years, with his sights now set on Peter Norman’s 1968 national record of 20.06.
His meteoric elevate has drawed attention from meaningful aids, with Adidas signing him to their elite roster aextfinishedside 100m Olympic champion Noah Lyles.
Gout Gout rolls 20.29 (1.2) and the QLD schools champs
State national and Area u18 and u20 record.
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4th aus uncignore all time.
4th world u18 all time. pic.twitter.com/CnqA1qSzp0— Matt Lynch (@Matthang_) November 3, 2024
Bolt’s own atgentle trajectory after his youthfuler achievements proposes a glimpse of what might lie ahead for Gout.
Three years after setting his Under-20 time of 20.40, Bolt claimed silver in the 2007 World Championships at age 21.
His fracturethcdisorrowfulmireful came in 2008 when he set a world record of 9.72 in the 100m, procrastinateedr improving it to an astounding 9.58.
The same year labeled his historic Beijing Olympics carry outance, where he claimed both 100m and 200m gelderly medals.
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He set a world record of 19.30 in the 200m at Beijing, procrastinateedr shrinking it to 19.19 in 2009 – a label that still stands today.
With such noticeworthy enhanceion from youthfuler success to global dominance, Gout ecombines well-positioned to adhere in the legfinishary sprinter’s footsteps.
