{"id":27299,"date":"2025-04-19T06:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gout-gout-breaks-20-second-barrier-to-win-australian-200m-title\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T06:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:44:03","slug":"gout-gout-breaks-20-second-barrier-to-win-australian-200m-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gout-gout-breaks-20-second-barrier-to-win-australian-200m-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Gout Gout breaks 20-second barrier to win Australian 200m title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Seventeen-year-old Gout Gout won the Australian 200m title and broke the 20-second barrier with a wind-assisted performance in Perth.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He crossed the line in 19.84 seconds &#8211; 0.2secs faster than his own national record, but it was not official record because of a wind speed of +2.2 metres per second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gout became the second fastest under-20 200m sprinter in history in all conditions &#8211; behind American Erriyon Knighton, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/61286185\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">clocked 19.49<\/a> at the LSU Invitational in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Top speed is my gift. I used it, took off and I got sub-20, so I couldn&#8217;t be happier,&#8221; said Gout, who ran a legal 20.21 in the heats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c0kx7dy7343o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen-year-old Gout Gout won the Australian 200m title and broke the 20-second barrier with a wind-assisted performance in Perth. He crossed the line in 19.84 seconds &#8211; 0.2secs faster than his own national record, but it was not official record because of a wind speed of +2.2 metres per second. Gout became the second fastest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4918,9623,594,4659,1597,9622,1710,1186],"class_list":["post-27299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-200m","tag-20second","tag-australian","tag-barrier","tag-breaks","tag-gout","tag-title","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27301,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27299\/revisions\/27301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}