Personal information | |
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Born | Ipswich, Queensland | 29 December 2007
Sport | |
Country | Australia |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 100 meters, 200 meters |
Club | Ipswich Grammar |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests |
Gout Gout (born 29 December 2007) is an Australian track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. [1]
Born in Ipswich, Queensland to parents from South Sudan who moved to Australia two years before he was born. He attends Ipswich Grammar School in South East Queensland. [2]
The holder of the Australian under-16 100m and 200m records, Gout ran 10.57 seconds for the 100m as a fourteen year-old. [3] Gout broke the Australian under-18 men’s 200m record in April 2023 aged fifteen years-old. He ran 20.87 seconds to win the under-18 men’s 200m final at the Australian Junior Athletics Championships in Brisbane in April 2023. [4] [5] [6]
He ran a personal best time of 10.29s to win the U-18 Boys 100m at the Queensland Athletics Championships in Brisbane, in March 2024. [7] He won the Australian U20 100m title in Adelaide in April 2024, running a time of 10.48 seconds. [8]
In May 2024 he was named in the Australian team for the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima. [9]
Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.
Distance | Time (s) | Wind | Location | Date | Notes |
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100 meters | 10.29 | +0.0 m/s | Brisbane, Australia | March 16, 2024 | |
200 meters | 20.69 | +1.4 m/s | Brisbane, Australia | January 27, 2022 | AYR |
20.68 w | +2.4 m/s | Brisbane, Australia | March 17, 2024 | Wind-assisted | |
400 meters | 48.98 | - | Brisbane, Australia | October 20, 2023 |
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Notes |
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2024 | Oceania U18 Athletics Championships | Suva, Fiji | 1st | 200 m | 21.24 | CR |
1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 41.34 |
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Wind (m/s) | Notes |
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2022 | Australian Athletics Championships U16 | Sydney | 6e | 100 m | 11.27 | −1.0 | |
4e | 200 m | 22.35 | +0.9 | ||||
2023 | Australian Athletics Championships U18 | Brisbane | 1st | 100 m | 10.50 | +1.3 | |
1st | 200 m | 20.87 | −0.1 | AYR | |||
2024 | Australian Athletics Championships U20 | Adelaide | 1st | 100 m | 10.48 | +1.1 | |
1st | 200 m | 20.97 | −1.0 | ||||
Australian Athletics Championships U18 | 1st | 100 m | 11.00 | −3.7 | |||
1st | 200 m | 21.23 | −2.2 |