Sprint sensation Gout Gout smashes 10-second barrier in GPS event in Queensland

Teenage sprint superstar Gout Gout has again gone under the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres, and once again in won’t count.

In a “low-key” event in Queensland on Friday night, the 17-year-old sizzled down the track to clock the electric time of 9.94 seconds.

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Incredibly, the time was just a whisker away from Patrick Johnson’s Australian record of 9.93 seconds, set way back in 2003.

But Gout’s time won’t count given it was only “hand timed”.

“It’s a low-key event the GPS,” Gout’s manager James Templeton said.

“But it’s good to get a run in, a nice little warm-up, and shows the form he is in for Tokyo in three weeks.

“It was hand timed but it was a race effort, and that’s important in the weeks leading up to Tokyo.”

Earlier this year Gout broke the 10-second barrier twice in the space of three hours at the national championships in Perth.

Gout ran identical times of 9.99s in both his heat and the final, but both legally didn’t count because of illegal tailwinds.

Gout will represent Australia in this year’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September.

However, at the event, he will only run in his preferred event, the 200m.

Gout has also confirmed his intention to run for gold at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Scotland.

It’s unclear which event the 17-year-old is planning to run at the Games, but there is some hope he might do the 100 and 200 double.

“We know the 100 is early enough in the program that he can do both the Commonwealth Games and then the juniors coming in soon thereafter,” Commonwealth Games Australia boss Craig Phillips.

Gout’s participation will further boost Australia’s hopes of again topping the medal tally, which they have done in eight of the last nine Games dating back to 1990.

Glasgow’s pared-down Games will feature 10 sports, nine less than in 2022 in Birmingham.

Sports which Australia tends to dominate at Commonwealth level such as hockey, rugby sevens and diving have been axed.

But 82 per cent of the nation’s medal events in Birmingham remain on the Glasgow program.

“We have ambitions to remain top of the medal tally, which is a stated ambition of ours all the time,” Phillips said.

“We really think that our athletes can do that. What that number takes, it will take.

“But we’re pretty confident that we’ll put our athletes in the best possible position to do that.”

The Commonwealth Games will take place in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2 next year and be broadcast exclusively live and free on Seven and 7plus Sport.

- With AAP