Gout Gout
Teenage star Gout Gout’s stunning 100m run in school meet
It was only a Friday night schoolboy meet, and it was hand-timed therefore not official, but the Australian teen phenomenon stopped the clock at 9.94 seconds.
- Michael Gleeson
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Seven years out, Mander hints at what Games will do to Brisbane
With exactly seven years until our Olympic cauldron is lit, the state government says it is ready to accommodate an expected spike in sports participation.
- Cameron Atfield
‘He is just 17’: Gout may not have run under 20s, but the athletics world is impressed anyway
The Australian phenomenon was racing the wind more than the rest of the field in the under-23s 200-metre event.
- Michael Gleeson
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- Australians in sport
His Cuban rival was leading, but Gout Gout knew he had him covered, and broke a record too
He had to wait for the school holidays to make his professional racing debut in the Czech Republic, but when he did, the 17-year-old flew to a new national record.
- Michael Gleeson
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The Gift that decided not to keep on giving
Sprint sensation Gout Gout’s Stawell Gift result shows a rethink is needed if the event is to remain Australia’s premier footrace.
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- Australians in sport
How did the Stawell Gift waste what should have been its greatest ever race?
That the two quickest men in Stawell on Monday could not even get to the final would suggest the handicappers had a howler.
- Michael Gleeson
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- Australians in sport
The teacher who beat schoolboy Gout in the semis also won the Stawell Gift
John Evans isn’t sure what the bigger achievement will be – telling his kids he won the Stawell Gift, or telling them that the day he did it, he beat Gout Gout.
- Michael Gleeson
Stawell utterly enthralled by Gout the great entertainer
Twice as many people as last year came just to see the heats. They came to see one person – the man whose name they chanted as he stood on the blocks. This was the day Gout Gout came to the Stawell Gift.
- Michael Gleeson
This man paid $50,000 to bring Gout Gout to Stawell, and would have doubled it
Local businessman Sandy McGregor has also offered to continue to support Gout with training and travel after Stawell.
- Michael Gleeson