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Teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout has flown location to decorativeness 3rd down his training mate and caller 150m world grounds holder Noah Lyles astatine nan Golden Spike way and section meet successful Ostrava.
Paris Olympics golden medallist Lyles clocked 14.67 seconds successful nan rarely-contested distance, smashing nan erstwhile previous people of 14.92 group by Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson earlier this twelvemonth successful Florida.
Second-placed South African Sinesipho Dambile (14.78) besides dipped nether Thompson’s erstwhile record, while nan fast-finishing Gout was 3rd successful a nationalist grounds of 14.96.
It was a immense betterment connected Gout’s Diamond League debut past week successful Oslo, erstwhile nan 18-year-old struggled retired of nan blocks and could only decorativeness sixth successful nan 200m.
“This is decidedly a title I was needing aft Oslo, and I americium gladsome I sewage it, and I americium fresh for more,” told nan Straight At It podcast.
“Usually erstwhile I get a bad commencement it’s difficult for maine to travel back, but coming I sewage an OK commencement and I brought it home.”
Earlier this year, Gout smashed his ain Australian 200m record pinch a clip of 19.67 astatine nan nationalist championships successful Sydney.
It was faster than nan legendary Usain Bolt had tally astatine nan aforesaid age.
The flying Queenslander has decided to skip nan upcoming Glasgow Commonwealth Games to attraction connected nan 200m astatine Under-20 world championships successful Oregon.
US prima Lyles, 28, won nan 100m astatine nan Paris Games and is simply a aggregate world champion complete 100m and 200m.
He and Gout embraced aft crossing nan decorativeness statement successful Ostrava. The brace person regularly trained together astatine Lyles’s US base.
In different action astatine nan Golden Spike meet connected Tuesday nighttime (Wednesday greeting AEST), Australian Peter Bol won nan 1000m successful 2 minutes 15.13 seconds, besides bettering nan Australian grounds successful a non-championship event.
