{"id":27783,"date":"2025-07-28T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27783\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:38:10","slug":"gout-gouts-100m-personal-best-crushed-by-16-year-old-japanese-athlete-sorato-shimizu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27783\/","title":{"rendered":"Gout Gout\u2019s 100m personal best crushed by 16-year-old Japanese athlete Sorato Shimizu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian sprinting<\/a> sensation Gout Gout has been upstaged by a 16-year-old from Japan.<\/p>\n

Sorato Shimizu has sent a warning shot to both Gout and the world after running a blinding 10.00 flat 100m sprint at a meet in Hiroshima, Japan on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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The teenager, who is 14 months younger than Gout, smashed the Aussie prodigy\u2019s personal best time of 10.17.<\/p>\n

Ominously, he is also now quicker than Usain Bolt at the same age.<\/p>\n

The Jamaican Olympic legend had not recorded anything faster than Shimizu\u2019s 10-flat at any stage until after he turned 20.<\/p>\n

Shimizu\u2019s run set a new 100m under-18 world record, which was previously held by both American Christian Miller and Thailand\u2019s Puripol Boonson, who had ran 10.06 seconds.<\/p>\n

Miller set the mark in July 2023 before Boonson joined him just under three months later.<\/p>\n

He is also the equal fifth-fastest Japanese runner of all time in the event.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the run, a hungry Shimizu said he didn\u2019t even hit his own personal goal, but said he was happy to have broken the country\u2019s high school record, which was previously Yoshihide Kiryu\u2019s 10.01 set in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was determined to run under 10 seconds heading into the final,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to have set a high school record. I\u2019d like to get a taste of it if I can make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes just over a month after Gout stitched together another Australian record when he won his first senior international race on foreign soil.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old, returning to competition for the first time since April, stunned the Golden Spike Meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic in late June.<\/p>\n

Gout powered away late and crossed the line in 20.02 seconds to defeat recent Diamond League winner Reynier Mena.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve felt stronger in training these last couple of months and I\u2019ve felt good since I got to Europe last Thursday,\u201d Gout said at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew Mena would come hard at me the first 100 but I was confident I\u2019d be close enough to come home strongly in the second part of the race which is of course my stronger part.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt calm but strong as I came off the turn and was confident I\u2019d be strong enough to get the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother national record! Pretty happy with that, it\u2019s not a bad first-up in Europe!\u201d<\/p>\n

Gout is building towards the 200m at the Tokyo world championships in September, and recently confirmed he would run for Australia at next year\u2019s Commonwealth Games<\/a> in Scotland.<\/p>\n

\"KennedyKennedy and Gout could square off in Glasgow. Credit: AAP<\/p>\n

The major competition will take place in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2 next year and be broadcast exclusively live and free on Seven and 7plus Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gout has taken the sprinting world by storm with his freakish talents, and next year\u2019s Games will be the biggest event of his budding career.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear which event the 17-year-old is planning to run, but he is expected to compete before going to the World Junior Championships in Oregon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to wait for the full Commonwealth Games program to be released but yes, we are planning that Gout will be available to run at an event in Glasgow before going on to the World Juniors in Eugene,\u201d Gout\u2019s manager, James Templeton, said.<\/p>\n

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