Sprint sensation Gout Gout has broken 20 seconds for the 200m for the first time and gone within a whisker of bettering his own Australian record with two sizzling runs at the Queensland athletics championships.
Gout flagged that he was again about to do something special when he clocked 20.05 seconds in the heats on Sunday morning, just one hundredth of a second outside the time he set in December which bettered an Australian standard that had stood for 56 years.
The 17-year-old then went even faster in the final with a flying effort of 19.98, but it won’t count as an Australian record as he was aided by an illegal 3.6m per second tailwind.
https://thewest.com.au/sport/athletics/gout-gout-on-fire-again-in-200m-at-qld-championships-c-18057666
