Gout Gout, the 17-year-old 100m and 200m dash prodigy, has earned his first call-up to the Australian squad after blitzing the nationwide championships earlier this month.
Teen sprinter Gout Gout has been confirmed on Australia’s crew for the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September.
The 17-year-old son of South Sudanese immigrants will run within the 200 metres after clocking a wind-assisted 19.84 seconds in Perth this month to win his first nationwide title. Gout’s run was the second-fastest ever by an athlete below 20 years of age below all situations.
The Queenslander’s speedy rise has raised comparisons with Jamaican dash nice Usain Bolt and made him the poster boy for Australian monitor and subject, seven years earlier than the nation hosts the Brisbane Olympics in 2032.
“I’m tremendous excited to be picked to run the 200 in Tokyo on the World Championships,” Gout mentioned in an Australian Athletics assertion on Wednesday.
“That’s what we’ve been aiming for. I’m trying ahead to September and seeing what I can do in opposition to one of the best of one of the best.”
Gout headlines a gifted younger contingent on the Australian crew, which incorporates 18-year-old Cameron Myers, who took the 1,500 nationwide title in Perth and ran the fastest-ever mile indoors amongst under-20 athletes (3:47.48) on the Millrose Video games in New York in February.
Former excessive bounce world champion Eleanor Patterson, who took bronze on the Paris Olympics, was additionally named on Wednesday among the many first tranche of athletes confirmed for the crew.
Patterson will bid for a sixth medal in main championships, having taken indoor silver at Nanjing in March behind compatriot Nicola Olyslagers.
Peter Bol, who ran fourth within the 800 on the Tokyo Olympics, will return to the Japanese capital in good type after taking the nationwide document (1:43.79) on the Perth championships.
