Gout Gout () (born 29 December 2007) is an Australian sprinter. He is the

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record holder in the

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, with a time of 20.02 seconds set in 2025.

Early life and background

Gout was born in

Ipswich, Queensland Ipswich () is an urban centre within the City of Ipswich in South East Queensland, Australia. Situated on the Bremer River (Queensland), Bremer River, it is approximately 40 km (25 mi) west of the Brisbane central business district. Ipswich is ...

, as one of seven children to

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parents from

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, who moved to Australia two years before he was born. According to Gout's father Bona, when he and his wife Monica fled

for

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, before moving to Australia, the family name, which was originally pronounced (romanised as "Guot" or "Gwot"), was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. "Gout", pronounced to rhyme with "pout", remains his official name. Gout's father has expressed a desire to change the name back to its original spelling to avoid connotation with the disease

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. Gout attends

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. In his younger years, Gout played

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, before making the decision to focus on athletics.

Career

The holder of the Australian under-16 100m and 200m records, Gout ran 10.57 seconds for the

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as a 14-year-old in 2022. The following April, at the age of 15, Gout first broke the Australian under-18 men's

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record. He ran 20.87 seconds to win the under-18 men's 200m final at the Australian Junior Athletics Championships in

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in April 2023.

2024

Gout ran a personal best time of 10.29s to win the U18 Boys 100 m at the Queensland Athletics Championships in Brisbane, in March 2024. He won the Australian U20 100 m title in Adelaide in April 2024, running a time of 10.48 seconds. He represented Australia at the

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, Peru, where he won the silver medal in the 200 metres in August 2024 in a personal best time of 20.60 (−0.7 m/s). On 18 October he competed in the 2024 GPS Track & Field Championships, winning the 200m and 400m double with times of 20.86 seconds for the 200m, and 47.57 seconds for the 400 m. On 28 October, he signed his first contract with

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. At the Queensland All-Schools Championships in the first weekend of November, he clocked a time of 20.29 (+1.2 m/s) in the heats of the 200m. In addition to achieving the Oceanian U20 record, he became the fourth fastest Australian over this distance and the fastest since 1993. This performance placed him fourth in the world all-time youth performance rankings, behind

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and

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. On 6 December, at the 2024 Australian All Schools Athletics Championship, he ran a personal best time of 10.04 (+3.4 m/s) in the 100m to win his heat. This time was the fourth-fastest U18 time in the world and the fifth-fastest all-time 100 m run by an Australian. He backed this up by winning the final in 10.17 (+0.9 m/s), breaking the Australian U18 record, which had been held by Australia’s reigning men’s senior champion Sebastian Sultana. The next day, in the 200 m final, Gout ran 20.04 seconds. This time ranked as the second-fastest U18 performance of all time (behind only Erriyon Knighton) and made Gout only the second U18 athlete to surpass

's record in this category. Gout's time also broke the Australian and Oceanian record of 20.06, previously held by

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who had set his record time while taking the

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in the 200m Final at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in

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2025

He finished runner-up to compatriot Lachlan Kennedy in the 200 metres race at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne on 29 March 2025. On 13 April 2025, he won the 200 metres race at the

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in a wind-assisted 19.84 seconds (+2.2 m/s) in Perth. He made his debut racing in Europe at the

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on 24 June 2025, where he lowered his own area record for the 200 metres set six months previously, by winning in 20.02 seconds (0.0 m/s) ahead of

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of Cuba.

Achievements

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Personal bests

International competitions

Circuit wins

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(200 m): 64th Ostrava Golden Spike

National championships

References

{{authority control 2007 births Living people Australian male sprinters Australian people of South Sudanese descent Sportspeople from Ipswich, Queensland People educated at Ipswich Grammar School Sportsmen from Queensland Sportspeople of South Sudanese descent 21st-century Australian sportsmen Dinka people