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Gout Gout Breaks Australian 200m Record in First Senior Race Abroad

His 20.02-second run in Ostrava positions him as a medal contender at September’s World Championships in Tokyo.

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Gout (right) finished 0.17 seconds ahead Mena (left) in the 200m race at Golden Spike.

Overview

  • Gout’s victory in the 200m at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet came in 20.02 seconds, setting a new Australian record in his first senior international race outside Australia.
  • He eclipsed Peter Norman’s 56-year-old national mark of 20.04 seconds and trimmed two hundredths off his own record from December.
  • The wind-legal performance confirmed his development after he posted unratified sub-20-second times in Perth during April.
  • Gout has been named to Australia’s team for the World Championships in Tokyo, where he will make his global senior-championships debut.
  • Fellow Australians Cameron Myers and Peter Bol also delivered top results in Ostrava, with Myers lowering the under-20 1500m record and Bol winning the 800m.