Schoolboy Gout betters 56-year-old Australian 200m record | ABS-CBN News

Teenage sensation Gout Gout ran the 200 metres in 20.04 seconds at the Australian schools championships in Brisbane on Saturday (December 7) to break the national record Peter Norman set at the 1968 Olympics. The tall 16-year-old, who earned comparisons with Jamaican sprint great Usain Bolt after winning 200m silver at the world under-20 championships in August, won the race by a good margin at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre (QSAC). His run was clocked at 20.07 but later revised down to take him under the 20.06 Norman posted to win silver behind Tommie Smith in Mexico 56 years ago. Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos later famously made Black Power salutes on the podium. The son of migrants from war-torn South Sudan, Gout lives in the Queensland town of Ipswich just down the road from Brisbane, where the Olympics will be held in 2032 when he is 24. Gout, who will turn 17 later this month, has next targeted breaking the 10-second barrier in the 100 and the 20-second mark in the half-lap race. (Production: Stefica Nicol Bikes) For more ABS-CBN News, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmgG2ln-vtKXb-oLlGEZc3sR Check out the latest news on upcoming Halalan 2022 here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmiGdpGgIvyNSlUsnCKyOzAM To watch the latest updates on COVID-19, click the link below: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmgUjPkc730KnTVICyQU6gBf Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch the full episodes of TV Patrol on iWantTFC: http://bit.ly/TVPatrol-iWantTFC Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS Twitter: https://twitter.com/abscbnnews #ABS-CBNHighlights #LatestNews #ABSCBNNews