EXCLUSIVE: Awe-struck Sally Pearson's scary call on 'electric' Gout Gout as Usain Bolt comparisons swirl

Two athletics prodigies millions of Australians will all but certainly be spotting in headlines on the cusp of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics are 16-year-old sprinting sensation Gout Gout and 18-year-old multi-event star Delta Amidzovski.

Gout has already made his way into many headlines, and even videos that have gone viral on a global scale, on the back of eye-catching runs that have drawn comparisons between the Brisbane speedster and Usain Bolt, the greatest male sprinter of all time.

Speaking to Wide World of Sports after this week being revealed as a new inductee of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, Olympic hurdling gold medallist Sally Pearson declared Gout would "set the world on fire" at the Brisbane Olympics and pondered: "Maybe we are seeing the next Usain Bolt".

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In January this year, Athletics Australia president Jane Flemming said on 2GB radio: "There's a 16-year-old sprinter up in Queensland called Gout Gout, who if I've ever seen anybody run like Usain Bolt and built like him, he is it ... Have a Google of this guy and watch him run. He is built like Usain Bolt and he runs like him".

Pearson says she's only ever seen Gout run in the numerous videos that have lit up the internet, including a clip that's amassed 3.5 million views on YouTube.

"What you see of him on those videos is pretty impressive and, god, he's going to be at the ripe age for the Brisbane Olympics coming around in a home country," Pearson told Wide World of Sports.

"God, he's just going to set the world on fire, I think. He's doing the blue-riband events, as well, which everyone wants to see, so that's going to take a lot of, I think, courage from him to be able to step up and have that belief in him, which he obviously already does, but to hold onto that all through a couple of Olympic cycles that we're going into [leading up to] Brisbane.

"I think it's very special for Australian sport and the Australian community to be able to see someone who could be quite dominant in Brisbane in the blue-riband events in the athletics. It's going to just be electric."

One of seven kids, Gout was born in Brisbane in 2007, a couple of years after his parents migrated from South Sudan.

He is a student at Ipswich Grammar School, is coached by Diane Sheppard and is managed by James Templeton, the agent of fellow Australian athletics stars Peter Bol, Cameron Myers and Sarah Carli.

Gout has a 100m personal best of 10.29 seconds (0.0 wind), but his pet event is the 200m.

At 15, his 200m personal best was 20.87 (-0.1), and at 16, his current age, he's down to 20.60 (-0.7).

By comparison, Bolt's 200m personal best at 15 was 20.58 (+1.4), while the Jamaican had improved to 20.13 (0.0) by the age of 16.

Bolt was 22 when he ran the quickest 200m time of his career — the 19.19 (-0.3) he clocked at the 2009 world championships in Berlin, which remains the world record 15 years on.

"I was in the same sort of era as Usain Bolt and he did set the world on fire; not just by his sporting achievements, but by his personality, as well," Pearson said.

"... If you're comparing him [Gout to Bolt] just on sporting talent, then maybe we are seeing the next Usain Bolt, and how lucky are we to have that in Australian sport.

"Let's just see if he can keep continuing that rise over the next few years.

"He's obviously already got a lot of pressure on him, but let's just support him and let's support his team and his coach, and hopefully they can get there."

There's a feasible chance Gout will make his Olympic debut in Los Angeles in 2028, at which point the gangly athlete with a massive, infectious smile will be 20.

He was beaten to 200m gold at this year's World Athletics under-20 championships, held in Lima, Peru, but the winner, South Africa's Bayanda Walaza, is almost two years older. Walaza won gold in 20.52 (-0.7) and Gout grabbed silver in 20.60.

Amidzovski was touted as a name to remember after breaking Pearson's Australian under-18 record in the 100m hurdles last year, stopping the clock at 13.02 (+1.8) to chop 0.12 of a second from the time set by Pearson in 2003.

In Amidzovski's other event, the long jump, the Wollongong product captured gold at this year's World Athletics under-20 championships.

She then won bronze in the 100m hurdles in Lima.

"I think she's sensational," Pearson said.

"It's very exciting, particularly because she does multiple events, and she's at that young age where she can have that choice ... Who knows, really, where her talents lie? ... She seems like she's going to be a really great talent for Australia."

Amidzovski is coached by her mum, Becky, and Roger Fabri, who's coached James Tedesco, Josh Addo-Carr, Joseph Suaalii and many other past and present NRL stars.

Pearson believes Amidzovski can pursue both the 100m hurdles and long jump at the elite level.

"When was the last year someone did that pairing [at the top level] of hurdles and long jump?" Pearson pondered.

"... I think it's definitely doable if they've got good coaching structure and understanding of body progressions over the next few years."