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Highly rated as Usain Bolt's successor, Australian youngster Gout Gout will train with the world's fastest man Noah Lyles.
Rising Australian sprint sensation Gout Gout tipped as Usain Bolt's successor, has received a high-class invitation from Noah Lyles and his coach for a training camp in January.
Gout has made major news headlines globally since his viral video emerged of the young Queenslander destroying a field of schoolboy sprinters with his strides unbelievably reminiscent of Bolt.
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Since then, the 16-year-old has won a 200m silver medal at this year's World U20 Championships in Lima clocking a then personal best of 20.60s, and in October signed a professional contract with Adidas.
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Less than a week later, he underlined his potential at the Queensland All Schools Athletics Championships in Brisbane, where he clocked a blazing new personal best of 20.29s (1.2) to breathtakingly take down Aidan Murphy’s 20.41s Australian U20 Record and become the fastest 200m sprinter from his country in 31 years.
His record-breaking performance made him the fourth-fastest in Australian and World U18 history behind Erriyon Knighton (19.84s), Usain Bolt (20.13s), and Puripol Boonson (20.19s), further stamping his name as a future world beater just like Bolt.
With an eye on hitting the qualifying standard of 20.16s for next year's World Championships in Tokyo and surpassing Bolt’s best under-18 mark of 20.13s, Gout and his coach Di Sheppard through Adidas have secured an invitation from the world's fastest man Lyles and his coach Lance Brauman to join their training group in Florida for a few weeks in January.
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In an exclusive interview with theguardian.com, Sheppard said it would be a learning opportunity for them both – to experience the world’s best performance environment and understand what it takes to reach that level. She also hopes to “pick up some hints on how to handle things when the media doesn’t go your way”.
But before then, Gout will return to the track for the Australian All Schools Championships in Brisbane, where he will run the 100m and the 200m, with focus on breaking Sebastian Sultana’s U18 national record of 10.27s in the 100m.
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He has a personal best of 10.29s set in March, and with his 200m progress, it's expected he'll lower the time with the right conditions.
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