Aussie sensation Gout Gout has taken the athletics world by storm again, setting the quickest 200 metre time in the world this year with a dazzling display in Brisbane. A day after winning the 100 metre title at the Queensland Athletics State Championships, Gout expectedly toyed with his rivals in a 200 metre heat, bounding well clear soon after the start and extending the margin the further they went.
The result was never going to be in doubt, so all eyes were on the clock, with the 17-year-old stopping it in a lightning quick 20.05 seconds with a wind of +1.2 behind him.
While it’s 0.01 seconds shy of his personal best, the time is the fastest recorded in the world so far this year, eclipsing rhe previous 2025 record of 20.13 seconds. It’s the second time in three months Gout has beaten the former Australian 200m record which stood for over 50 years.
At the 1968 Olympic Games, Peter Norman set that record. Gout won the Under 20s 100m final on Saturday by over a half-second with a final time of 10.38 seconds.
It was only 0.01secs quicker than Gout went in winning his heat earlier on Sunday, and short of his fastest legal time of 10.17 seconds — achieved in the final at the Australian All-Schools Championships in Brisbane in December
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