Australian teen sprint sensations Gout Gout and Torrie Lewis light up finals on world stage
- 16-year-old Gout second in men’s 200m at athletics U20 champs
- Olympic semi-finalist Lewis wins silver in women’s 200m in Lima
Gout Gout has underlined his status as one of Australia’s most exciting young athletes, bolting to a silver medal with a personal-best time in the 200m at the world athletics U20 championships. The 16-year-old finished strongly to log a time of 20.60 seconds in Lima at the junior championships.
Gout bettered his own national U18 record of 20.69, storming home to beat every rival with the exception of 18-year-old South African Bayanda Walaza (20.54). Usain Bolt’s gold-medal time in the 200m final at the corresponding event in 2002, when the Olympic icon was just shy of his 16th birthday, was 20.61.