‘This kid is coming!’- Track and Field coach issues chilling warning to Noah Lyles

Noah Lyles has been put on notice as a rising sprint sensation delivers a shocking performance, prompting a coach’s bold warning.

Lightning does not strike once in the world of track and field and the latest bolt of electricity is a 17-year-old Australian prodigy named Gout Gout.

After an electrifying performance at the 128th Queensland Athletics Championships, the young sprinter has sent shockwaves through the sprinting world, setting his sights on the fastest men alive, including reigning world champion Noah Lyles.

Gout, who spent the Australian summer training alongside Lyles in Florida, has returned home and wasted no time proving that his confidence is not just talk—it is backed by blistering times. This weekend, as the NCAA Championships captivated track fans across the United States, another spectacle was unfolding thousands of miles away in Australia. And this one demanded attention.

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At the Queensland Championships, Gout Gout stamped his name in the record books with a historic 200m performance. His time of 20.05 seconds shattered Makanakaishe Charamba’s previous u20 record of 20.13s, set just last month in Texas.

The 17-year-old had already won the 100m in 10.38 seconds, but it was his 200m dominance that turned heads around the world. Now, the question is not if Gout can reach the elite level—it is when.

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Coach Rob, a well-known voice in the track and field world, issued a stark warning to the sport’s top sprinters, particularly Noah Lyles, after witnessing Gout’s performance.

“Now that he put this time on the boards, it reminds me of what we just saw from Christian Miller last year… Gout just sent that type of warning shot to every serious sprinter in the world.”

Skeptics had dismissed Gout as another teenage sensation whose hype outweighed his talent.

But after his dominant weekend, those opinions are rapidly shifting.

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Even Coach Rob admitted as per Essentially Sports, “For a long time, and even to some degree still at this moment, I thought that the hype was exactly that—it was just hype.”

Now, he acknowledges that Gout’s speed and competitive edge are undeniable.

The comparisons to Usain Bolt may be premature, but they aren’t entirely unwarranted. After all, Gout’s 20.05-second sprint was not even a full second behind Bolt’s world record of 19.19s.

More importantly, it’s faster than many all-time greats ran at his age. His name is now firmly in the conversation of the sport’s most exciting young talents.

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The next step for Gout will be the ultimate proving ground: the Stawell Gift in April, where he will face Australia’s fastest sprinters, including Lachlan Kennedy, Rohan Browning, Sebastian Sultana, Joshua Azzopardi, and Jacob Despard.

Kennedy, who recently ran a stunning 10.03 seconds at the Perth Track Classic, will be a formidable rival. But Gout’s manager, James Templeton, remains unfazed.

“Certainly, it doesn’t daunt him. He can’t be fretting about some decent local competition. It’s great for Australian athletics.”

The confidence oozing from Gout is exactly what makes him so compelling to watch.

He does not just want to be the best in Australia—he wants to challenge the fastest men on the planet.

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His time training with Lyles was not just an opportunity to learn; it was an opportunity to measure himself against the world’s best.