The 17-year-old Australian Sudanese sprinter clocked 20.02 seconds to break the Australian national record once again.
Australian teenage sprinter Gout Gout has crushed the 200-metre field in his first senior race abroad, bettering his own national record by two hundredths of a second to finish in 20.02 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike.
The 17-year-old high school student ran a textbook race in his European debut at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, crossing the line 0.17 seconds ahead of Cuban Reynier Mena, while Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (20.60) was third.
“I feel good. New personal best, new national record in my first European race,” the boy from Queensland told reporters.
Gout is being compared with Usain Bolt as he beat the Jamaican icon’s time at Ostrava. Bolt finished his first 200m race at the event in 20.28 in 2006, but went on to win three Olympic 200-metre golds and set a new world record of 19.19 seconds.
