- Australian clocks wind-assisted 10.04s at school championships
- Teenager has chance to break 10-second barrier in Friday’s final
Australian teenager Gout Gout’s star continues to rise after the 16-year-old ran the fourth-fastest under-18 100m time in history at the All-Schools Athletics Championships in Queensland.
Gout, who turns 17 at the end of December, rocketed to the line in just 10.04s to comfortably win his heat and beat the Australian under-18 record of 10.27s held by Sebastian Sultana. An illegal tailwind of 3.4 m/sec on Friday means the previous record still stands, but Gout’s spectacular time also smashed his personal best of 10.29s and is the fourth-fastest in all conditions by an Australian of any age.
