Teen sprint sensation Gout Gout breaks Usain Bolt’s U-18 200m record

Australian sprinting phenomenon, Gout Gout, has stunned the athletics world, clocking a blistering 20.04 seconds in the 200m at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships in Brisbane on Saturday.

The time, the fastest ever by a 16-year-old, smashed Peter Norman’s 56-year-old national record of 20.06 set during the 1968 Olympics, MSN reports Saturday.

This historic performance not only establishes Gout as Australia’s fastest-ever sprinter over 200m but also places him second on the all-time list for under-18 athletes, overtaking Usain Bolt’s 2003 mark of 20.13 seconds.

Only Erriyon Knighton’s world record of 19.84 seconds as a 17-year-old stands ahead of him.

“These are adult times, and me, just a kid, I’m running them. It’s going to be a great future for sure,” said the Brisbane-born teen, whose parents migrated from South Sudan.