Australian teen sensation Gout Gout has earned comparisons with Jamaican legend Usain Bolt due to his knack for breaking records but how would a race between the two go?
Australian teen sensation Gout Gout has been compared to Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt given his knack for breaking junior records.
Gout Gout, who recently turned 17, has 100m personal best of 10.17 seconds and holds the Australian and Oceanian 200m record after clocking 20.04.
The youngster has become a phenomenal with many tipping him to become even bigger than the legendary Usain Bolt, who has himself lauded him, but called for caution regarding the hype.
Bolt is an eight-time Olympics champion, 10-time world champion and holds the 100m and 200m world records, having clocked 9.58 and 19.19 seconds respectively, both at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany.
Gout Gout continues to attract attention, and his performance this year will be instrumental to how his budding career develops
Such is his talent that Gout Gout is now being compared to a legendary figure like Bolt and since fans will never witness them race alongside each other, a 3D simulation has been made to see who between the two would come out on top.
YouTube channel Motion Athlete, the 3D animator and motion designer, has come up with an interesting outcome regarding the Australian and Bolt if both faced off as 16-year-olds.
The 3D animation rolls back the years to Bolt’s performance in 2003 and races it against Gout Gout on typical race patterns, coming out with interesting results.
Gout Gout is quick off the blocks but the slower Bolt closes in and tears past the Australian to clock 5.89 seconds to his rivals’ 6.06 seconds at the 50m mark, going on to hit the 100m in 10.33 seconds as the teen star clocks 10.69 seconds.
However, it gets interesting beyond that, Gout Gout gets closer at the 150m mark, a 10th of a second behind, to be precise, but the explosive finishing power that he has shown in his races kicks in as he powers beyond Bolt to win the race in the final 50m in 20.04 seconds, a personal best, as the Jamaican finishes second in 20.13 seconds.
That might see the hype grow even bigger for the Australian who has now moved to the United States to join coach Lance Brauman, who also works with Olympics and six-time world champion Noah Lyles in Florida.
