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Sprint sensation Gout Gout set to skip Commonwealth Games in favour of U20 World Championships | Sport-others News

Sprint sensation Gout Gout set to skip Commonwealth Games in favour of U20 World Championships | Sport-others News

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2 min readFeb 9, 2026 11:08 AM IST Australian teen sprint sensation Gout Gout has opted out of the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow. According to reports in Australian media, the 18-year-old will skip the multi-sporting event, set to take place in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2, in favour of the U20 World Athletics Championships scheduled from 5th August in Oregon, USA. “It’s (Commonwealth Games) is a great event and it’s one of those big meets where everyone loves (it), but looking at development, it’s definitely the better decision going for the World U20s,” he said to Channel 7’s Bruce McAvaney, as reported by SEN He has set the international Athletics circuit on fire for the last couple of years. He won the silver at the 200m event at the previous edition of the World U20 Championships and also participated at the Senior World Championships last year where he reached the semi-finals. Di Sheppard, the Queenslander’s coach, said the tight turnaround between the two events was a major reason behind the decision to …

How Adidas won the race for signature of Usain Bolt’s successor | Sport-others News

How Adidas won the race for signature of Usain Bolt’s successor | Sport-others News

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Australia’s 16-year-old sprint sensation Gout Gout will pocket $6 million from a multi-year deal he signed with Adidas, a contract that was signed during the Junior World Championships in Peru. Adidas had to beat Nike and Puma to gain the signature of what many consider to be the successor to Usain Bolt. Puma had taken a chance by signing Bolt when he was at the same age as Gout. Adidas secured the Australian’s signature by ensuring two criterias that were put in front of them. One was that Gout, part of seven children, would continue to stay in Australia. The other was the carrot of training with Noah Lyles and his coach Lance Brauman in Florida, which was dangled in front of the soon to be 17-year-old. “Australia has just woken up to this kid. But these shoe companies … they’ve known all about him for two years,” said Gout’s manager James Templeton to the Sydney Morning Herald. “They (Adidas) always conveyed to me … not an urgency, but a real desire to get this …

‘Gout Gout or Guot Guot’: Aussie teen sensation’s father reveals the young talent’s real name | Sport-others News

‘Gout Gout or Guot Guot’: Aussie teen sensation’s father reveals the young talent’s real name | Sport-others News

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He might have hit headlines after his record 100m run of 10.04 seconds (not counted due to tailwind) along with the 200m record of 20.04 seconds in the Australian School Athletics Championship last week, but it has emerged that 16-year-old Gout Gout is not named as the bib and records show. The 16-year-old, whose timing of 20.04 seconds in the 200m run at the championship meant that he broke Peter Norman’s record of 20.06 second set at 1968 Olympics, is known as Guot as per records and is pronounced ‘Gwot” according to his father. “His name is Guot, it’s supposed to be Guot. When I see people called him Gout Gout I’m not really happy for him. I know that Gout Gout is a disease name but I don’t want my son to be called a disease name … it’s something that’s not acceptable,” Gout’s father Bana told Australia’s Seven network. The Queensland born teenager of South Sudan heritage had first made a 100m run of 10.04 seconds with an illegal wind speed in the …

How Adidas won the race for signature of Usain Bolt’s successor | Sport-others News

Watch video: Teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout breaks 56-year-old Australian 200m record | Sport-others News

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Teenage sensation Gout Gout ran the 200 metres in 20.04 seconds at the Australian schools championships in Brisbane on Saturday to break the national record Peter Norman set at the 1968 Olympics. The tall 16-year-old, who has started earning comparisons with Jamaican sprint great Usain Bolt after winning 200m silver at the world under-20 championships in August, won the race by a good margin at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre. “It’s definitely great. I’ve been chasing that record, but I didn’t think it would come this year. I thought it’d come maybe next year, [or] the year after that,” he is quoted as saying by Sydney Morning Herald after the record-breaking run. As per the same report, Gout’s 20.04 seconds is now quicker than Bolt’s fastest time when he was a 16-year-old (20.13s). The all-time great from Jamaica then dipped below 20 seconds as a 17-year-old, registering 19.93s. GOUT OF THIS WORLD 🌏🌏 In 20.04-seconds, 16-year-old Gout Gout has sprinted into athletics history as Australia’s fastest ever man over 200m, taking down Peter Norman’s …

Gout Gout, the 16-year-old sprint sensation from Australia, must sidestep the ‘next Bolt’ tag | Sports News

Gout Gout, the 16-year-old sprint sensation from Australia, must sidestep the ‘next Bolt’ tag | Sports News

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Away from the Australian summer of cricket, a 16-year-old sprinter and viral sensation Gout Gout is making heads turn Down Under. In the latest video with over three lakh views, the Queensland-born teeanger of South Sudanese heritage speeds away from his competitors, slows down at the finish line yet wins by a huge margin. He then canters, stops and turns, raises his right arm with the index finger pointed skyward before bending down and smashing a clenched fist into the track. The theatrics were in response to the display on the clock — 10.04 seconds. If not for the illegal wind speed, Gout Gout would have entered the record books as the fastest-ever youth athlete in the 100 metres. Not one to be deterred, Gout wrapped up the day by winning the final in 10.17 seconds. He walked away with the title of the fastest Under-18 Australian ever and moved to sixth on the all-time list. On Saturday, Gout did even better by breaking Peter Norman’s 200 metre Australian record of 20.06 seconds set at …

Who is Gout Gout, who broke Usain Bolt’s record?

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In an electrifying performance at the recently concluded U20 World Athletics Championships in Lima, Peru, 16-year-old Australian sprinter Gout Gout eclipsed a long-standing record held by the legendary Usain Bolt. Gout’s timing of 20.60 seconds in the 200m final helped him surpass Bolt’s 2002 record of 20.61 seconds in the same age category, marking a historic achievement for the young athlete. Gout clinched a silver medal with the record-breaking performance and was just behind the 18-year-old South African Bayanda Walaza, who had just won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics 2024 in the 4x100m relay. Gout was born to South Sudanese parents Monica and Bona in Brisbane in 2007 after they migrated to Australia in 2005. At 15, he not only clinched the men’s under-18 200m title at the Australian Junior Athletics Championships but also set a national under-20 record. He further solidified his potential with a remarkable 10.29s in 100m in March 2024, a time that would have qualified him for the preliminary rounds of the men’s 100m event at the Paris 2024 …