Gout Gout's national championships in pictures: Stern message sent as schoolboy sensation, DQ'd rival embrace
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Gout Gout's national championships in pictures
Check out the best pictures of Gout Gout from the 2025 Australian athletics championships, held at Perth's WA Athletics Stadium from April 10-13.
The 17-year-old prodigy contested the under-20 100 metres and the open-age 200m.
Gout in the zone
Gout pictured ahead of his 200m heat.
For the second time in a fortnight, the schoolboy was ready to take on men.
Gout leapfrogs three Olympic champs, including Bolt
Gout storms down the straight in the 200m final en route to clocking 19.84 seconds.
An illegal tailwind of +2.2 metres per second rendered the run unofficial.
However, he leapfrogged three Olympic champions, including Usain Bolt, on the under-20 "all conditions" list.
Gout erupts
Gout celebrates open-age glory and clocking his fastest-ever time.
The first time that appeared on the clock was 19.88. Seeing that time put the schoolboy sensation in raptures.
When he discovered moments later that his time had been rounded down to 19.84, he was even more ecstatic.
"Let's f---ing go!" he roared, bouncing around and beating his chest.
The celebrations roll on
The hottest property in Australian athletics knows how to celebrate.
Jubilant Gout gets around his fans
A crowd of 5278 flocked to WA Athletics Stadium for the final day of the championships.
Every one of those thousands watched on entranced by the prodigious sprint superstar.
Gout and his manager embrace
Gout and his manager, James Templeton, embrace after the 200m final.
The Gout show rolls on
Gout struts, enraptured with his latest staggering achievement.
Gout and his rival — the clock
The precocious sprinter revels in clocking a wind-assisted 19.84.
The 200m final had loomed as a mouthwatering rematch between Gout and Lachie Kennedy, the 21-year-old who had trumped the prodigy by four hundredths of a second in Melbourne a fortnight earlier, but Kennedy was wiped from the final after a false start.
Gout was then racing the clock and the clock only, having seen his only genuine rival cut from the final in cruel scenes.
Gout and his coach share a heartwarming hug
Gout and his coach, Di Sheppard, embrace.
