Sprint sensation Gout Gout makes moving gesture at final GPS Track and Field Championships in Queensland

Australian sprint sensation Gout Gout’s final school athletics carnival will be forever remembered for one prefect gesture.

The teenage superstar was featuring in the GPS Track and Field Championships in Queensland on Friday, but decided to only run in the 100m relay and the 400m event, sitting out of the 100m and 200m individual sprints.

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“He’s not doing those individual events, I guess, to give some of the other people a chance to perhaps take home gold,” revealed Sunrise reporter Georgie Chumbley on Friday morning.

It is Gout’s last schoolboy sprint event before he graduates, and rather than bow out in a blaze of individual glory he’s made a selfless decision and chosen to compete for the Ipswich Grammar relay team.

Some young children had arrived early on Friday to the Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre hoping to catch a glimpse of Gout.

Unfortunately for them, however, they might only get to see the Olympic-bound champ warming up around the track and not during a race.

“All eyes are going to be on the track superstar this afternoon when he does run around the Queensland Athletic Centre and we’ve just started to see actually some of the junior school kids arrive,” Chumbley said.

“Now sadly, I’ve been told, that the majority of them are going to have to go back to school after they’ve finished their competition so they might not actually see the incredible sensation (in action).”

Gout broke Peter Norman’s 56-year-old 200m national record late last year, and is fresh off a world championships debut in Japan where he reached the semi-finals.

And when he was 16 he beat the legendary Usain Bolt’s 200m mark set at the same age.

“It’s hard to believe that he is just a 17-year-old,” Chumbley said.

“He’s such an incredible sport, an amazing athlete, but also it just seems like he’s got a really good head on his shoulders.

“He’s still in Year 12 so on to graduation, all of those other fun things as well, but a really amazing day just to round out his school career here at the GPS Track and Field Championships.

“There’ll be plenty of people cheering him on. I think some selfies and some autographs will be in order this afternoon.”

Sunrise host Sally Bowrey said she felt for the kids who were being ordered back to school.

“Hope those kids don’t have to go back to school. That’s a bit rotten. Give them the day off, I say,” Bowrey said.

Gout’s 400m race is scheduled for 6.18 pm AEDT on Friday, while the 4x100 is on at 7.27pm AEDT.