Australian teenage sprinter Gout Gout crushes the 200 metres discipline in his first senior race overseas, bettering his personal nationwide file to complete in 20.02 seconds on the Ostrava Golden Spike
Final Up to date: 24/06/25 10:03pm
Gout Gout celebrates after successful the lads’s 200m in the course of the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in Ostrava
Teenager Gout Gout set a brand new private greatest and an Australian file with victory within the males’s 200m on his senior worldwide debut on the Golden Spike assembly in Ostrava.
The 17-year-old ran a textbook race on the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold occasion within the Czech Republic, clocking 20.02 seconds in a extremely anticipated first European assembly.
He crossed the road 0.17 seconds forward of Cuban Reynier Mena whereas Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (20.60) was third.
Gout ran a textbook race on his European debut
Gout’s earlier private greatest was 20.04, which he ran final December to interrupt Olympic silver medallist Peter Norman’s nationwide file that had stood for 56 years in 20.04.
Gout, who has drawn comparisons to Jamaican nice Usain Bolt, was confirmed in April for Australia’s staff for the World Championships which might be held from 13-21 September in Tokyo, Japan.
Sweden’s Olympic and world champion pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, who broke the world file for a twelfth time with a clearance of 6.28m on the Diamond League assembly in Stockholm this month, claimed victory with 6.13m in Ostrava.
“I felt good with the jumps, contemplating I felt as if I used to be working on lower than a full tank,” stated Duplantis.
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