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Re: Gout Gout

Reply #30 – December 06, 2024, 02:39:33 pm

Has just run 10.04 for the 100 (wind assisted 3.4 m/s)

Gout Gout 10.04 100m +3.4m/s wind Australian All Schools
▪ #5 Australian All-Time (all conditions)
9.88 +3.6 Patrick Johnson 2003
9.96 +3.3 Rohan Browning 2021
10.00 +4.3 Tim Jackson 1989
10.03 -0.1 Matt Shirvington 1998
10.04 +3.4 Gout Gout 2024
(also 9.7h +6.6 Rod Mapstone 1996)

▪ #4 Fastest U18 in the World all-time all-conditions
9.99 +2.7 Erriyon Knighton USA 2021
10.02 NWI Jelani Watkins USA 2021
10.02 +2.4 Puripol Boonson THA 2023
10.04 +3.4 Gout Gout AUS 2024
▪ In the last 21 years the only Aussie to run faster in Australia is Rohan Browning
▪ Meet record
▪ Aged 16, 17 on 29th December

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #31 – December 06, 2024, 07:09:20 pm

And now he's run a legal 10.17 ( +0.9 wind )

Gout Gout 100m FINAL 10.17 (+0.9m/s) Australian All Schools
▪ PB by 0.12 seconds
▪ Australian U18 record, by 0.1 seconds, he now holds the U16 & U18 records and was 0.02 outside the U20 record
▪ moves from #44 to #14 Australian all-time
▪ #2 U18 in the world in 2024
▪ #6 U18 World all-time list
▪ Aged 16, 17 on 29th December

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #32 – December 06, 2024, 10:19:25 pm

Quote from: Lods – on December 06, 2024, 07:09:20 pm

And now he's run a legal 10.17 ( +0.9 wind )

16 years old, wow!

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #33 – December 07, 2024, 09:23:02 am

If the weather is fine, and the wind is right, watch out for something special around lunch-time today.

200 metres

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #34 – December 07, 2024, 11:03:22 am

Diane Sheppard's "gut instinct"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78zA-tCJU1Y

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #35 – December 07, 2024, 03:36:38 pm

20.38 in his Heat. (wind +2.5)
Jogged the last 10-15 metres

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #36 – December 07, 2024, 05:19:48 pm

He's broken Peter Norman's Australian 'Open' Record in the final.
Set in 1968 at altitude in the Olympics.

20.04 in a legal wind.
Number 2 in the world all time u/18

Faster than Usain Bolt at U/18
He's still only 16 (17 at the end of the month)

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #37 – December 07, 2024, 06:48:39 pm

Crazy.

What happened to that Tasmanian wonder kid from a couple of years ago?

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #38 – December 07, 2024, 07:00:49 pm

Quote from: madbluboy – on December 07, 2024, 06:48:39 pm

Crazy.

What happened to that Tasmanian wonder kid from a couple of years ago?

Jack Hale.
Was still around having a crack at Olympic selection earlier in the year, but has struggled a bit to improve on his junior times.
He ran the relay at the last Commonwealth games

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #39 – December 07, 2024, 07:05:32 pm

Here it is.
Actual race is around the 4.30 mark

Bear in mind that those behind him are the best U/18 sprinters in Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCgCz4ZjiRw

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #40 – December 07, 2024, 07:13:53 pm

I watched the 100m before and he got a terrible start, but still made it look easy.
In the 200m he got a decent start and made it look even easier.

Hopefully his coaches can manage to keep his feet on the ground until the next olympics because the only thing that will stop him is himself.

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #41 – December 08, 2024, 07:21:29 pm

I just saw on the news that his name is supposed to be Guot Guot. Apparently, it was mistranslated by an Egyptian official as the family fled to there.

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #42 – December 09, 2024, 11:55:40 am

Don't feel too bad for the runners-up in Gout's race.
Josiah John (NSW) and Terrell Thorne (QLD)
Both ran 20.87 to move to 2 and 3 on the All time Australian u/18 lists

John broke the NSW U/18 record in that 200 metre race.
Terrell Thorne won the 400 metres and broke the Australian u/18 record 45.64

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #43 – December 09, 2024, 01:59:43 pm

Quote from: Lods – on December 09, 2024, 11:55:40 am

Don't feel too bad for the runners-up in Gout's race.

Isn't it amazing what a bit of friendly competition brings?

Something to keep in mind as we watch our various teams, footy , cricket, etc., etc., persisting with rusted on selection policies!

Re: Gout Gout

Reply #44 – December 09, 2024, 10:03:38 pm

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.