{"id":495340,"date":"2026-02-21T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495340\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:22:10","slug":"australian-star-sprinter-stuns-with-a-record-equalling-time-in-the-100-metres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495340\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian star sprinter stuns with a record-equalling time in the 100 metres"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sprint sensation Gout Gout clocked the equal-fastest legal 100 metres run by an Australian on home soil, notching an even 10 seconds (+0.9) on Saturday in his first race at the distance in 2026.<\/p>\n

The teenage superstar is edging closer to legally breaking the magical 10-second barrier<\/a> after an awesome performance at the Dane Bird-Smith Shield Meet at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre.<\/p>\n

Gout\u2019s latest time is the same as that of Lachlan Kennedy, who achieved the feat in Perth in April 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kennedy and Patrick Johnson also ran legal 9.98 and 9.93 secs for the 100m in Nairobi (Kenya) and Mito (Japan) in 2025 and 2003 respectively.<\/p>\n

Gout also set an Australian under-20 record in Brisbane on Saturday, eclipsing the 10.15 mark set by Jake Doran in 2018.<\/p>\n

The man whose under-20 record Gout broke, fellow sprinter Jake Doran, was quick to congratulate the young Queenslander on Athletics Australia\u2019s Instagram account.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only a matter of time! Proud it took someone of Gout\u2019s calibre to eclipse my mark,\u201d Doran wrote.<\/p>\n

Doran is on the comeback trail after rupturing his hamstring last year, so he could still compete against Gout in the future.<\/p>\n

\"Gout<\/p>\n

Gout Gout\u2019s remarkable feats just keep coming.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sprint sensation Gout Gout clocked the equal-fastest legal 100 metres run by an Australian on home soil, notching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-495340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}