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Gout Gout Clocks 19.67 to Win Australian 200m, First Legal Sub-20 by an Australian

Officials called the weekend evidence of a new peak for Australian track.

Overview

  • Gout Gout won the 200m in 19.67 at Sydney on Sunday with a legal +1.7 m/s wind, breaking the national record as Aidan Murphy followed in 19.88.
  • The time was reported as a world under-20 record ahead of Erriyon Knighton’s official mark, and it bettered Usain Bolt’s 19.93 at the same age.
  • Lachlan Kennedy, who ran 9.96 on Friday and then repeated it to win Saturday’s 100m title, withdrew from the 200m final to manage his workload.
  • Cameron Myers ran 3:29.85 in the 1500m, which is the fastest ever on Australian soil and the top time worldwide this year.
  • In the women’s 1500m, Jess Hull fell after contact with Claudia Hollingsworth, whose disqualification was later overturned on appeal.