He is 16 years old, comes from South Sudan, and with Usain he shares speed (even more), the stride and the desire to put on a show when he gets on the track. Story of a phenomenon in its infancy
Let no one say they didn’t see it coming, please. At sixteen Gout Gout is already bulky, iconic, magical. Impregnable. Cheeky but shy, a polite braggart. The third of seven children, his family left South Sudan to seek a new start in Australia. Gout Gout would be born two years later in Brisbane. “I want to become the Cristiano Ronaldo of athletics,” he says today. But no, no more comparisons. This teenager runs like no one has ever done before and only the athletic gods know how fast he can go in a few years. To read the future, the times that Gout Gout creates now are enough. And those of the 100 and 200 meters at the Australian All Schools Championships, the Australian school championships, went around the world. “I never thought I could be someone, and now I’m on the path to becoming someone great, so it definitely touches my heart. I just want to show the world what I can do.”