Gout Gout shatters Usain Bolt 200m World Record

Australia’s Gout Gout made history by becoming the fastest 16-year-old in the world when he crashed Usain’s Bolt record on Saturday (07) at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships in Queensland.

Gout, who turns 17 in December, ran a staggering 20.02 second in the 200m race, took off with a lighting speed as soon as the gun was fired and pulled away from the rest of the pack in an emphatic fashion as he also brought down Peter Norman’s 56-year-old Australian record.

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The Brisbane star achieved the feat just one day after becoming his country’s fourth fastest-ever 100m runner with a time of 10.04.

“Remember it,” was the cry of an understandably and deservedly confident Gout as he spoke to reporters after the race. “I’ve been chasing that record, but I didn’t think it would come this year. I thought it would come maybe next year, the year after that,” said Gout.

In clocking 20.04 over 200m, he also surpassed the Jamaica great’s time set at a similar age, when he ran 20.13sec at his under 18s meet in Barbados in 2003