• Opinion
• Australians in sport

He’s 17 and the world’s fastest man over 200m this year, but we should no longer be shocked by Gout Gout

If Gout Gout can do this now at the age of 17, what will he be able to do when he is not carrying his play lunch to school in Tupperware and sitting through a double period of maths?

• March 18, 2025
• Michael Gleeson

• Australians in sport

Gout does it again: Teen blitzes field in 200m races

If he hadn’t already broken Peter Norman’s long-standing 200m record, Gout Gout would have broken it on Sunday. The youngster now has the two quickest times by an Australian man.

• March 16, 2025
• Michael Gleeson

• Good Weekend

Faster than Usain Bolt at the same age: The Ipswich schoolboy turned $6 million man

Meet Queensland teenager Gout Gout: A-grade student, prefect, Mario Kart fiend – and, at 17, the talk of global sprinting.

• March 15, 2025
• Konrad Marshall

• Magazine
• Good Weekend

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Wanna bet on Gout Gout to win the Stawell Gift? He’s too young, sorry

The historic Stawell Gift is synonymous with betting but under Victorian laws punters won’t be able to back the sprint race’s headline act this year.

• March 5, 2025
• Chris Barrett

• Opinion
• The Fitz Files

Gout Gout in the Stawell Gift is a masterstroke – there’s just one problem

The young sprint sensation’s participation in the famous handicap race on Easter Monday will be unmissable.

• February 22, 2025
• Peter FitzSimons

• Athletics

Gout Gout backs up talk by taking down Olympic champion’s personal best

Just days after warning Noah Lyles he was coming for the world and Olympic champion, teenage sensation Gout Gout has achieved a mark that has eluded the US track star.

• February 15, 2025

• Exclusive
• World athletics championships

Sprint star Gout Gout to run the Stawell Gift

The hottest property in Australian athletics, Gout Gout has agreed to run in the nation’s richest foot race, a decision expected to create unseen hype for the event in its 143rd year.

• February 12, 2025
• Michael Gleeson

• World athletics championships

‘Come after me’: Olympic champion’s message after meeting Gout Gout

Noah Lyles sat opposite Gout Gout as the 17-year-old schoolboy from Queensland quietly but unabashedly told the American star he planned to beat him … this year.

• February 6, 2025
• Michael Gleeson