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Re: Gout Gout

Reply #45 –
Quote from: DJC – on
I heard an interview with Gout Gout’s manager on the wireless today.  It started off well when an irate caller criticised the ABC for getting his name wrong, pronouncing it incorrectly, and not doing basic research.  The manager jumped in and said that his name is definitely Gout Gout and the young man pronounces it as Gowt Gowt 🙂

The manager said that his job mainly involved refusing requests for interviews.  He said that a 16 year old has more important things, like school work and exams, to worry.

He has arranged a sponsorship with Adidas.  One of Adidas’s other athletes (whose name escapes) was a 2024 Olympic sprint medalist and his coach was on the athletics circuit with Gout Gout’s manager.  Gout Gout will be training with him.

Apparently, Usain Bolt saw footage of Gout Gout’s run and said “He looks just like me when I was young!”  The manager refused to be drawn on comparisons, saying that no good would come from comparing a 16 year old with the greatest sprinter of all time.

He's going to spend some time training with Noah Lyles the Olympic 100 metre champion and his coach Lance Brauman in Florida. It's not going to be a long stint, just a couple of weeks. He has to get back to school and concentrate on his final year. ;)  :D

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #46 –
Quote from: Lods – on
He's going to spend some time training with Noah Lyles the Olympic 100 metre champion and his coach Lance Brauman in Florida. It's not going to be a long stint, just a couple of weeks. He has to get back to school and concentrate on his final year. ;)  :D

That’s him!  It should be a wonderful, if short, experience for Gout Gout.

It seems that the lad, his mother, manager and coach are all in furious agreement about prioritising school and living as a normal 16 year old.
It's still the Gulf of Mexico, Don Old!

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #47 –
The experience will be great, but the duration is about right.
His coach is doing a great job with him.
The last thing you want to happen is 'mixed messages' for the athlete which sometimes happens with a large input from a second coach.
Gout has to be listening to only one voice, and not questioning his main coach's methods.

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #48 –
As we move into the Track and Field championship months most Track and field folk are looking forward to seeing Gout Gout go around again.
But there are also some really good performances happening elsewhere.

In the last week or two….
-Ella Connolly ran 7.16 in the 60 metres at the Australian short track championships. That would have broken Sally Pearson’s Australian record… except that Torrie Lewis ran a 7.14 to set a new record in Belgrade last week.

18 year old Cameron Myers has just equalled the (all time outdoor and indoor) Australian Mile record at the Milrose games in New York running 3.47.48 which is also an u/20 world record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXC5KLKk-I

Torrie Lewis again- 22.65 indoors for the 200m just shy of Melinda Gainsford’s indoor national record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6W2FwL3ueo


Track and Field

Reply #49 –
A thread for random track and field performances and personalities …

Olympic sprinter Lachlan Kennedy has put up the equal-third best time for an Australian in the 100 metres at the weekend.  The 21-year-old Queenslander ran 10.03 seconds (+1.1 wind) at the Perth Track Classic.

After the race, Kennedy said, “I know I can go faster if I can nail that start, and if I can do that with the last 40m I just ran there, we’re cookin’.”

If Kennedy can nail his start, he could join Patrick Johnson as sub-10 second Australians.
It's still the Gulf of Mexico, Don Old!

Re: Track and Field

Reply #50 –
Quote from: DJC – on
A thread for random track and field performances and personalities …

Olympic sprinter Lachlan Kennedy has put up the equal-third best time for an Australian in the 100 metres at the weekend.  The 21-year-old Queenslander ran 10.03 seconds (+1.1 wind) at the Perth Track Classic.

After the race, Kennedy said, “I know I can go faster if I can nail that start, and if I can do that with the last 40m I just ran there, we’re cookin’.”

If Kennedy can nail his start, he could join Patrick Johnson as sub-10 second Australians.

Kennedy has been running really well.
It was a fast race
Often fast in Perth ;)

Josh  Azzopardi (10.09) and Seb Sultana (10.11) also ran PB's
Jack Hale (4th) is starting to run fast again (10.23)
The top 7 all ran under (10.30)

Add 'the Gout' with a windy 10.04 and a legal 10.17 and we could have a couple go under 10.00 and a pretty impressive relay team

Re: Track and Field

Reply #51 –
https://www.athletics.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AustRec-2025Feb.pdf

Keep a watch on the  records, especially both the men's and women's sprint and middle distance marks, in the next month or two as Athletics moves into its championship season.

Since that record list was compiled...
Georgia Griffiths has set a new mark in the Women's 1000 metres 2.34.50 at the "Box Hill Burn"
Peter Bol went within a whisker of Jeff Riseleys 1000 metre mark at the same meet. Missing by just 0.2 sec.

Re: Track and Field

Reply #52 –
Australian Team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China: from March 21-23
Coverage on SBS
(names in brackets are the coaches)

Women (13)

60m: Torrie Lewis (QLD, Laurent Meuwly), Ella Connolly (NSW, Andrew Murphy)
800m: Sarah Billings (VIC, Nic Bideau), Abbey Caldwell (VIC, Gavin Burren)
1500m: Georgia Griffith (VIC, Nic Bideau)
3000m: Linden Hall (VIC, Ned Brophy-Williams), Jessica Hull (NSW, Simon Hull)
High Jump: Nicola Olyslagers (NSW, Matt Horsnell), Eleanor Patterson (NSW)
Pentathlon: Camryn Newton-Smith (QLD, Ralph Newton)
4x400m Relay: Ellie Beer (QLD, Brett Robinson), Jemma Pollard (NSW, Tim Eschebach), Ella Connolly (NSW, Andrew Murphy), Torrie Lewis (QLD, Laurent Meuwly) and Bella Pasquali (VIC, Jason Boulton)

Men (7)

60m: Lachlan Kennedy (QLD, Andrew Iselin), Joshua Azzopardi (NSW, Rob Marks)
400m: Cooper Sherman (VIC, Neville Down)
1500m: Oliver Hoare (NSW, Dathan Ritzenhein)
3000m: Ky Robinson (QLD, Dathan Ritzenhein)
Pole Vault: Kurtis Marschall (WA, Paul Burgess)
Long Jump: Liam Adcock (QLD)

Re: Track and Field

Reply #53 –
Josh Azzopardi (10.06) and Seb Sultana (10.08) had good runs at the Sydney Track Classic tonight, Wind was above the allowable though at +2.4

Gout Gout ran into a headwind (-1.4 )in Queensland (u/20 champs)and clocked 10.38 to win by over half a second.
Not to be outdone Rohan Browning has gone a legal (+1.2) 10.12 in the Open B final at the same meet.
We're going to see a sub 10.00 before the season finishes.
It may be wind assisted, but it's really close.

...and to top it all off at the Sydney meet-the Men’s 4x100m set a new national record of 37.87-seconds. Lachlan Kennedy , Joshua Azzopardi , Christopher Ius  and Calab Law beat the former mark of 38.12-seconds.


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Re: Track and Field

Reply #54 –
With a strong tailwind Gout Gout has run 19.98 in the U/20 final at the Queensland championships.
He won by 2 secs

He ran a legal 20.05 (+1.2) in the earlier rounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWJHjSiIvz8

Re: Track and Field

Reply #55 –
Lachlan Kennedy has just run second at the World indoor championships.
Silver medal in 6.50
Beaten by 0.01 sec
Gold to Azu of Great Britain 6.49

Re: Track and Field

Reply #56 –
3000 metre runners turn at the World indoors....
Double Bronze
Jessica Hull in the women's 8.38.28- (Linden Hall 9th 8.44.99)
Ky Robinson in the men's 7.47.09

Re: Track and Field

Reply #57 –
Women's High Jump at the World Indoors
1 and 2 for Australia
Gold to Nicola Olyslagers
Silver to Eleanor Patterson

Both cleared 1.97 Nicola on a countback.

Re: Track and Field

Reply #58 –
Australian women's 4x400 relay team finish with a Bronze at the Indoors 3.32.65

Liam Adcock Bronze in the Mens Long Jump 8.28
One centimetre off the Silver
Two centimetres off the Gold

Re: Track and Field

Reply #59 –
Australia finished 6th on the medal table at the World Indoors
1-Gold- 2 Silver and 4-Bronze.
7 medals in total was second overall behind the USA's 16