Teen Sprint Sensation Gout Gout Gout won the title of 200 meters two days after having won the 100m race in the Australian Athletic Championships in Perth in 9.99 seconds.
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The teenager Gout Gout has reinforced her growing reputation as one of the best young sprinters in the world on Sunday by backing up a title of 19.84 seconds assisted by the wind to win the Australian title of the 200m.
His puffed race was the second fastest of all time by an athlete under 20 among all the conditions, exceeding the 19.93 of Usain Bolt in 2004 and 19.86 by Justin Gatlin in 2001.
Friday, he followed the 100m crown at the Australian Athletic Championships in Perth in 9.99 seconds.
This was also done with a rear wind slightly above the authorized limit, so it will not make records.
But its rapid development arouses growing interest, the tagged schoolboy described this year by the president of world athletics Sebastian Coe as a rare talent.
“It really feels good, that’s what I hunted,” said the 20 seconds barrier.
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The child started it again. The 17 -year -old drop has obtained a slice of history becoming the second fastest under 20 years old in the history of more than 200 m in all conditions, sliding at a time of 19.84 (+2.2) to win the Australian title 200m!
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Gout, who was born in Australia after his parents emigrated from South Sudan, took importance in December when he timed the fastest 200m of 16 years by a 16 -year -old 20.04 seconds, improving the Bolt record at the same age.
He had to keep his nerve Sunday after two athletes were started, including the main challenger Lachlan Kennedy, before the drop exploded blocks and left the rest in his wake.
“I was a little nervous,” he admitted. “But in my head, I just keep my composure, I calm down, because this thing happens, you can’t really control it.
“So I made sure I was not starting or was not unstable, and I took off.”
In another action, the bronze medalist in the world championship Kurtis Marschall won the male pole jump by cleaning 5.71 m, well within the 6.00 m he was targeting.
The triple Olympian Peter Bol established an Australian record in 800m (1: 43.79) while Nicola Olyslarsers, who kept his world title in high jump last month, won the event in Perth with a jump of 2.01m.
