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Topics: Australia, Athletics, Olympics, Usain Bolt
Ben McCrum
An Australian Olympian has revealed the two reasons why viral sprinter Gout Gout could be the next Usian Bolt.
Gout, a 16-year-old sprinter from Brisbane, has gone viral after competing in the 100m event at the Queensland Athletics Championships.
The Australian, who was born in 2007, dominated his fellow competitors, finishing with a highly-impressive time of 10.29 seconds.
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Since the video of the March event has gone viral, many have drawn comparisons between Gout and eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt, and one fellow Olympian has explained why.
After Gout broke the under-18s 200m record by 0.03 seconds, Australian track and field Olympian Jane Flemming spoke to 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio, via the Daily Mail.
She said: "There's a 16-year-old sprinter up in Queensland called Gout Gout, who if I've ever seen anybody run like Usain Bolt and [be] built like him, he is it.
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"He's broken our national under-18 record and he is only 16.
"Have a Google of this guy and watch him run - he is built like Usain Bolt and he runs like him.
"He is [also] running not dissimilar times to what Bolt did at the same age [in Jamaica]."
At the 200m event at the Australian junior titles, Gout finished with a time of 20.87 seconds, beating the previous joint national record held by Darren Clark, Paul Greene and Zane Branco.
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Comparatively, at 15-years-old Usain Bolt ran 200m in 20.58 with +1.4 at 15-years-old.
Speaking after the winning the viral 100m race, the youngster, whose parents emigrated from South Sudan in 2005, Gout acknowledged the comparison between him and Bolt.
"It's pretty cool because Usain Bolt is arguably the greatest athlete of all time and just being compared to him is a great feeling," Gout said told news.com.au in April.
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"Obviously I'm Gout Gout so I'm trying make a name for myself. If I can get to the level he was that would be a great achievement."
However, the Australian youngster did not name Bolt as one of his favourites in the sport, instead naming American sprinters Erriyon Knighton and Noah Lyles as his favourites.