Gout Gout got off to a flying start this season with record-breaking performance in his homeland and has revealed there’s more to come from him.
Teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout made a remarkable start to his 2025 season by blitzing the field in the 200m final to win the Queensland Athletics State Championships over the weekend.
While this was his first competitive race of the year, the 17-year-old broke a few records in the process, justifying why he has been likened to Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt, the fastest man alive.
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Gout Gout’s blistering sprint in the heat where he clocked 20.05s with a +1.2 wind, was the quickest 200m time recorded this year across all ages. Although his winning time of 19.98 seconds in the finals was not officially counted as his +3.6 tailwind was over the +2.0 threshold, his victory was enough to send a message to his rivals as he looks transformed ahead of the 2025 season.
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Gout Gout afterwards, explained in an interview with talkSPORT how watching Bolt made him develop goosebumps and it is part of the reason he is focussed to succeed him in sprinting.
“It feels great because I’ve been at that stage, watching Usain Bolt on the news and just getting goosebumps. Giving people goosebumps, it definitely feels great and I wish I can continue giving people more goosebumps that’s for sure.”
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Although it did not officially count, Gout’s time of 19.98s places him just behind sprint legend Usain Bolt’s fastest 200m time at the same age, which was 19.93s.
Better still, Got Gout entered elite company as he became just the seventh athlete aged under 20 to break the 20-second barrier in any condition and has now beaten the World Athletics Championship qualifying time of 20.16 twice this season.
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Gout Gout, who played soccer and grew up admiring Cristiano Ronaldo as his favourite footballer before making the decision to focus on athletics, is the Oceanian record holder in the 200m, with a time of 20.04 seconds set in 2024. Gout’s time broke Peter Norman’s 56-year record to become the fastest Australian in the 200m event.
The Queenslander, whose parents are from South Sudan, is set to feature at the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne on March 29.
