Gout Gout eases into 100m semis to leave shot at breaking 10-second barrier on hold
Gout Gout has tuned his legs for a showdown in under two months against American superstar Noah Lyles with a solid opening run over 100m at the national junior championships in Brisbane on Friday.Five days after becoming the 16th fastest 200m runner ever by clocking 19.67sec at the national championships in Sydney, the teenager backed up at the shorter distance against athletes his own age.Gout recorded the fastest time in the heats, stopping the clock at 10.19sec with a tailwind of +0.
3m/s,It was a promising outing which would have been good enough for third among seniors at the nationals last week, but is well outside his personal best of 10,00sec set in February,“It’s a good run, definitely saved myself for semis and finals,” he said,Gout broke the 10-second barrier last year, but his 9.
99sec in Perth was recorded with an excessive tailwind.He said he was eyeing that 10-second barrier on Saturday.“Hopefully the wind stays pretty calm and, you know, anything is possible.”The second fastest qualifier for the semi-finals was Gout’s fellow Queenslander Uwezo Lubenda with 10.38sec, followed by New South Wales athlete Zavier Peacock in 10.
42sec.Gout has a semi-final and final to run on Saturday in a meet that serves as a building block for his highly-anticipated first season as an adult, after he turned 18 in late December.This week the teenager locked in a duel over 150m with his sponsor stablemate and one-time training partner Lyles, at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in Czechia on 16 June.The world record for the non-traditional distance is 14.92sec which was set two weeks ago by Kishane Thompson, the Jamaican who grabbed 100m silver behind Lyles at the Paris Olympics.
The distance and field will test Gout, whose strength is his top-end speed at the end of the 200m straight, rather than the start,But the Queenslander has emerged in 2026 noticeably stronger since graduating from high school,He leapt out of the blocks during his 200m record on Sunday and again looked solid in the first half of the race on Friday,Gout’s stunning performance in the senior nationals last Sunday had some American athletics commentators questioning whether the wind reading was accurate, so quick was Gout’s time,“There’s always going to be haters.
If you’ve got haters, it means you’re doing something right, so it is what it is,” the Australian said,“Obviously, it was pretty fast so that’s probably why they’re a bit mad,”The 18-year-old’s focus this year is a pursuit of gold at the World Junior Championships in Oregon in August,Prior to racing in Ostrava, Gout will be in Oslo, where he is due to face Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo in his first senior Diamond League race,The Australian had a taste of the Diamond League last year when he won an under-23 200m in Monaco.
After his European adventure, Gout will travel to the US where he will compete at the Prefontaine meet in Oregon, where Tebogo and American Kenny Bednarek will line up alongside him.Gout has chosen to skip the Commonwealth Games to focus on the World Juniors Championships, in August, at the same venue in Oregon.Gout will race there in his favourite distance of 200m, and may still compete in the 100m but will decide on his program later in the year.
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