Gout Gout has broken Jamaican icon Usain Bolt’s world record, but the legend has a warning for the teenage phenom.
Sprint icon Usain Bolt has advised the buzzing teen phenom from Australian Gout Gout not to forget athletics and to find a good support network to stay focused on his career goals.
Gout, 18, retained the 200m title at the Australian Athletics Championship on April 12 in a time stamp of 19.67 seconds, breaking American sprinter Erriyon Knighton’s under-20 world record (19.69) and edging Bolt’s time of 19.93 seconds off the fastest Jamager time of 2000.
Gigt, who also won the national under-20 100m title, went under the 20-second mark at last season’s championships with a wind-aided 19.84 and once held the fastest time by a 16-year-old over 200m when he posted that time, 20.04, in 2024.
The Jamaican eight-time Olympic GOAT has some great advice for the teenager, speaking in an interview with CNN.
Bolt expresses hope for young rheumatoid arthritis: “Hopefully he has the right set of people to guide him and keep him focused on athletics because the rest of the things will always be there.”
While warning the teenage sprint sensation, Bolt said: “But if you mess up athletics, it all goes away.”
18-year-old Australian sprinter Gout is set to make her Diamond League debut at the 200m Oslo on 10 June 2026.
But with his focus on the upcoming Under-20 World Championships in Oregon in August, he has indicated that he will not be part of the Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, which will be held in July this year.
