Teenage Australian dash sensation Gout Gout has smashed a number of extra data with an astonishing 200m run of 20.29 seconds on the Queensland All-Faculties Championships.
The 16-year-old moved to fourth spot on each the Australian all-time senior record and the world total under-18 rankings on Sunday, whereas additionally setting new Australian and Oceania under-18 and under-20 data.
The Australian Beneath-20 file of 20.41 was beforehand held by Aidan Murphy.
The 16-year-old Gout — who has been in comparison with a younger Usain Bolt — burst onto the worldwide scene by claiming the silver medal within the 200m on the world junior championships in Peru in August in 20.60.
However Sunday’s flying time of 20.29 was in one other league.
The Australian senior 200m file of 20.06 was set method again in 1968 by Peter Norman, who claimed the silver medal on the Mexico Metropolis Olympics.
Solely final week, Gout signed his first skilled contract with adidas, whose secure additionally contains Olympic 100m champ Noah Lyles from the USA.
Gout was born in Brisbane in 2007 after his mother and father emigrated from South Sudan.
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