Overview
- Gout Gout won the boys' open 400m at Queensland's GPS championships in a meet-record time reported between 46.14 and 46.18 seconds.
- He skipped his usual 100m and 200m to contest the 400m and the 4x100m relay in his last appearance as a schoolboy athlete.
- Brisbane Grammar's Seth Kennedy broke Gout’s GPS 200m record earlier in the day with 20.64 and then finished second in the 400m in 46.64.
- Gout, who reached the 200m semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo last month, said his next step is the world stage.
- He thanked coach Di Sheppard and Ipswich Grammar for their support and had one race left on the program in the 4x100m relay.