Unfavourable conditions slow Gout Gout but teen superstar's pet event still to come

Teen Australian athletics sensation Gout Gout copped unfavourable conditions for sprinting on Saturday, but could be set for another show-stopping run in his pet event less than 24 hours later.

Competing in the under-20 division of the 100m at the Queensland athletics championships in Brisbane, Gout clocked 10.39 seconds in the heats and 10.38 in the final — relatively slow times affected by wet and windy conditions.

Not only was the 17-year-old met with a head wind of -1.3 metres per second in his heat and -1.4 in the final, he was running on a wet track after another Brisbane downpour.

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However, he will strut back onto the track for his favoured 200m on Sunday.

Second place in the 100m final, Michael Alofokhai, posted 10.81 seconds, while the third-placed Heath Smallacombe registered 11.04.

Two-time Olympian Rohan Browning opened his season at the same meet, clocking 10.12 (+1.2 wind) in the B final of the open 100m.

Gout's 100m personal best is 10.17, although he's recorded a 10.04 aided by an illegal wind of +3.4 metres per second.

At the all schools championships in Brisbane in December, he blazed through the 200m in 20.04 to take down Peter Norman's long-standing and revered national record — the 20.06 he clocked at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

Whether Gout is able to go quicker again on Sunday is a tantalising prospect.

The showmanship of Gout was on display in the heats on Saturday as the Adidas-sponsored superstar, wearing a slick red outfit and fluorescent spikes, gestured to the crowd while scooting over the finish line.

Wide World of Sports revealed this month that Gout's highly anticipated appearance at the Stawell Gift next month would be funded by the majority owner of the racehorse that won the 2015 Melbourne Cup, Prince Of Penzance.

WWOS also revealed four other top Australian sprinters — Lachlan Kennedy, Josh Azzopardi, Jack Hale and Jacob Despard — were set to race in the famous 120m sprint in Stawell on the Easter long weekend.