Gout Gout, who has been in comparison with Usain Bolt, has been the speak of Australian athletics in recent times, however the 17-year-old may quickly have some additional competitors
Gout Gout might quickly have a rival on his palms after one other Australian sprinting prodigy obliterated a 15-year-old report. The 17-year-old, who has been likened to Olympic legend Usain Bolt, lately took half within the senior World Championships within the 200m after breaking a number of nationwide information.
However Gout could have taken discover of 16-year-old Uwezo Lubenda’s beautiful show within the 100m on the Queensland Consultant College Sport occasion. The Townsville athlete stormed throughout the end line in an astonishing time of 10.35, smashing the earlier under-16 report on the state championship.
That mark had been held by Hugh Donovan, who clocked 10.73 again in 2010. To place Lubenda’s achievement into perspective, his time would have been fast sufficient to see him progress by means of the preliminary heats within the 100m at this 12 months’s World Championship.
Gout’s private greatest as a 16-year-old was 10.17, which he recorded in December final 12 months, simply earlier than turning 17. He additionally ran a wind-assisted 10.04.
After amassing his medal from former Olympian Paul Di Bella, Lubenda, whose earlier private greatest was 10.42, advised the Townsville Bulletin: “Man, I really feel superb. I used to be form of hoping for a time like that, and I wasn’t pondering an excessive amount of about it, however I am actually grateful.”
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Lubenda, who was born in January 2009, moved from the Congo to Australia along with his household in 2013. His ambitions embrace representing his nation on the 2032 Olympic Video games in Queensland’s capital, Brisbane, when he can be 23. He revealed final 12 months: “My objective is 2032 Brisbane; I’ve received my eyes on that.”
Fellow Queenslander Gout can be setting his sights on the 2032 Video games. Already a family title Down Below, he has inked a profitable cope with sportswear behemoth Adidas.
Reflecting on the deal earlier this 12 months, he advised GQ: “It was loopy. The quantity saved getting greater and I realised how a lot these corporations suppose I am price.
“However that sponsorship actually helps you get to the subsequent degree as a result of clearly you want the cash to journey and to coach.
“Particularly since I am at college, so I needn’t go and discover a job at Maccas or no matter to place gasoline in my automobile. It positively helps so much.”
Gout, whose household emigrated from Sudan to Australia twenty years in the past, added: “Long run, I might prefer to set myself up and set my household up.
“I’ve saved so much and I purchased myself a brand new automobile after I received my Ps [a provisional driving licence], in order that’s most likely the largest buy I’ve made to date. I have not gone loopy.”
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