Gout Gout


Gout Gout is an Australian sprinter. He is the Oceanian record holder in the 200 metres, with a time of 20.02 seconds set in 2025.

Early life and background

Gout was born in Ipswich, Queensland, as one of seven children to Dinka parents from South Sudan, who moved to Australia two years before he was born. According to Gout's father Bona, when he and his wife Monica fled South Sudan for Egypt, before moving to Australia, the family name, which was originally pronounced , 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 gout.
Gout attends Ipswich Grammar School in South East Queensland. In his younger years, Gout played soccer, before making the decision to focus on athletics.

Career

The holder of the Australian under-16 100 and 200 m records, Gout ran 10.57 seconds for the 100 m as a 14-year-old in 2022. The following April, at the age of 15, Gout first broke the Australian under-18 men's 200 m record. He ran 20.87 seconds to win the under-18 men's 200 m final at the Australian Junior Athletics Championships in Brisbane 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 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, where he won the silver medal in the 200 metres in August 2024 in a personal best time of 20.60. On 18 October he competed in the 2024 GPS Track & Field Championships, winning the 200 and 400 m double with times of 20.86 seconds for the 200 m, and 47.57 seconds for the 400 m.
On 28 October, he signed his first contract with Adidas. At the Queensland All-Schools Championships in the first weekend of November, he clocked a time of 20.29 in the heats of the 200 m. 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 Usain Bolt and Puripol Boonson.
On 6 December, at the 2024 Australian All Schools Athletics Championship, he ran a personal best time of 10.04 in the 100 m 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, 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 and made Gout only the second U18 athlete to surpass Usain Bolt's record in this category. Gout's time also broke the Australian and Oceanian record of 20.06, previously held by Peter Norman who had set his record time while taking the Silver medal in the 200m Final at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City.

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 Australian Athletics Championships in a wind-assisted 19.84 seconds in Perth. He made his debut racing in Europe at the Golden Spike Ostrava 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 ahead of Reynier Mena of Cuba.
In September 2025, he was a semi-finalist in the 200 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, finishing third in his heat in 20.23 seconds and fourth in 20.36 in his semi-final, without advancing to the final. The following month, he lowered his personal best for the 400 metres to 46.14 seconds whilst competing in Brisbane.

Achievements

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    Personal bests

International competitions

Circuit wins