Gout, 17, breaks Australian 200m record

Teenager Gout Gout group a caller Australian grounds pinch triumph successful nan men's 200m connected his elder world debut astatine nan Golden Spike gathering successful Ostrava.

The 17-year-old clocked 20.02 seconds successful a highly anticipated first European gathering successful nan Czech Republic.

The sprinter powered past Portuguese-based Cuban Reynier Mena, who had to settee for 2nd aft winning nan past 2 Diamond League 200m races.

"I consciousness good. New individual best, caller nationalist grounds successful my first European race," said Gout Gout.

"I don't consciousness immoderate pressure. Because arsenic soon arsenic I measurement retired connected that track, it's conscionable maine by myself and what I've sewage to do - my favourite thing, and that's to run.

"I conscionable spell retired location and tally and thing stops maine from doing that. (I request to) Get immoderate much races successful maine and (the 20-second barrier) will driblet for sure."

Britain's Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake vanished 3rd pinch a season's champion 20.60.

Gout has been compared to legendary eight-time Olympic golden medallist Usain Bolt, and his 200m clip successful Ostrava was amended than that of Jamaica's world grounds holder, who vanished successful 20.28 connected his first Golden Spike meet successful 2006.

However, Gout is yet to tally a ineligible clip nether 20 seconds, which Bolt achieved 4 months earlier his 18th day pinch a 19.93 successful Bermuda.

Gout's erstwhile individual champion was 20.04, which he ran past December to break Olympic metallic medallist Peter Norman's long-standing Australian record.

Gout has stepped up to elder level aft dominating younker meetings.

He holds nan Australian under-16 records successful some nan 100m and 200m, and past twelvemonth won nan nationalist under-20 100m title earlier securing a 200m metallic badge successful nan World Under-20 Championships successful Lima.

Following past year's triumph successful nan 200m and 400m astatine nan 2024 GPS Track & Field Championships successful his autochthonal Queensland, Gout turned master and signed a sponsorship woody pinch Adidas.

He will proceed his mentation for September's World Championships by competing astatine nan Monaco Diamond League meet astatine Stade Louis II connected 11 July.

This year's World Championships will beryllium held from 13-21 September successful Tokyo, Japan.

Pole vault world grounds holder Armand Duplantis was 1 of 4 athletes to group caller Golden Spike records.

Sweden's Olympic and world champion, who broke nan world grounds for a 12th clip pinch a clearance of 6.28m astatine nan Diamond League gathering successful Stockholm this month, claimed triumph pinch 6.13m successful Ostrava.

Duplantis said he was pleased pinch his capacity contempt failing pinch his 3 attempts astatine 6.29m and a caller world record.

"I felt bully pinch nan jumps, considering I felt arsenic though I was operating connected little than a afloat tank," said Duplantis.

Kenyan teen Phanuel Koech, 18, besides group a gathering grounds successful nan men's 1500m pinch a clip of 3 minutes 29.05 seconds, while South Africa's world indoor champion Prudence Sekgodiso clocked 1 infinitesimal 57.16 seconds to declare triumph successful nan women's 800m.

In nan women's 400m, Bahrain's erstwhile world champion Salwa Eid Naser collapsed location favourite Tatana Kocembova's 42-year people grounds pinch triumph successful 49.15 seconds.

Elsewhere, Britain's Samuel Reardon vanished 2nd successful nan men's 400m, and Olympic metallic medallist Amy Hunt came 4th successful nan women's 100m.