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Gout Gout breaks his own 200m national record in latest stunning run

Australia's Gout Gout celebrates winning the men's 200m at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic.
Australia's Gout Gout celebrates winning the men's 200m at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic. Photograph: David W Černý/Reuters

The records keep falling for Gout Gout after the 17-year-old sprint sensation announced himself on the senior international stage with a new Australian benchmark of 20.02s over 200m at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic.

Gout remains on course to go sub-20s as he bettered his own national record in a field stacked with high-quality sprinters, chasing down and then roaring past Reynier Mena over the final 20m to cross the line 0.17s ahead of the Cuban, with Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake third.

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