Overview
- Gout Gout won the 200m at the national championships in Sydney in 19.67 seconds, with Aidan Murphy second in 19.88 for two Australians under 20 seconds.
- The time is the fastest 200m of the year so far and places him behind only about 15 men in the event’s history.
- It was his first legal run under 20 seconds after a 19.84 last year was thrown out because wind conditions broke the rules.
- He broke through as a 16-year-old with a 20.04 that set an age record and bettered Usain Bolt’s mark at the same age.
- He fell in the 2025 World Championships semifinals in 20.36, and he now points to the U20 World Championships in Oregon in August as his next target.