Gout Gout wins in Monaco; Jessica Hull, Peter Bol shatter Australian records

Gout Gout galloped to another win in the second and final race of his European tour — a trip squeezed into the year 12 student's school holidays — but was held back, literally, by a strong headwind in Monaco on Saturday (AEST).

Making his first appearance at a Diamond League meet, the 17-year-old Ipswich Grammar School student lined up in the under-23 200 metres and won the race in 20.10 seconds, 0.08 of a second outside his Australian record.

Running into a headwind measuring -1.9 metres per second cost him in his bid to break his national record — the 20.02 he ran at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic last month — but in yet another indication of his frightening talent, he won in Monaco by a comfortable margin.

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Gout (20.10 seconds) led home Botswana's Busang Collen Kebinatshipi (20.28), who's 21 years old, and South Africa's Naeem Jack (20.42), who like Gout is 17.

On the same night in Monaco, Peter Bol clocked 1:42.55 to annihilate his Australian 800m record by more than a second, finishing fourth in a blistering 800m field.

And Jessica Hull also set a new Australian record, registering 2:30.96 in the 1000m to smash Georgia Griffith's mark by more than three seconds.

Meanwhile, Australia's Kurtis Marschall finished third in the pole vault with a jump of 5.92 metres.

In the race won by Gout, the top four could hardly be split coming off the bend, but the Australian wunderkid soon pulled away from two of them and then powered ahead of Kebinatshipi in the final 20 metres. The margin he won by, 0.18 seconds, is considerable in the 200m.

Gout said his run in Monaco was about staying calm and replicating what he'd been working on under the guise of his coach, Di Sheppard.

"Today was just getting really relaxed and just focusing on what I have been doing in training, and that is what I did and I got a win," Gout said.

"It was into a negative headwind so that was pretty unlucky, but I was just practising what I do in training and trying to execute."

While Gout was competing at his first Diamond League meet, the under-23 200m wasn't recognised as an official Diamond League event.

An open-age 200m was a fixture of the official Diamond League schedule, which American megastar Noah Lyles won in 19.88 seconds, ahead of reigning Olympic 200m gold medallist Letsile Tebogo (19.97), who hails from Botswana.

"I'm feeling very excited to racing everyone out in the big league, [like] Noah Lyles, Tebogo," Gout said.

"Everyone out there is really fun to compete against, for sure.

"So I want to go out there [in the years ahead] and see what I can do, for sure."

Gout will race Lyles and Tebogo in the 200m at the world championships in September in Tokyo, where the Queenslander will run in green and gold as a senior athlete for the first time.

He clocked 19.84 seconds to win the open-age 200m final at the Australian championships in Perth in April, but was assisted by too strong a wind for it to go down as a record.

The fastest legal 200m time Usain Bolt ran as a 17-year-old was 19.93 seconds. Gout, whose personal best is 20.02, will turn 18 on December 29.