Gout Gout, wearing a red vest and a gold crucifix around his neck, points with his right hand across his body and smiles while crouching on a blue athletics track with white and yellow stadium seating in the background. Image source, Getty Images
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Gout Gout won silver in the 200m at the 2024 World Under-20 Championships aged 16

ByElizabeth BotcherbyBBC Sport journalist
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Sprint legend Usain Bolt has urged rising Australian star Gout Gout not to forget track and field and find a good support network to keep him focused on his career as the spotlight and distractions intensify.

Gout, 18, retained the 200m title at the Australian Athletics Championships on 12 April in a time of 19.67 seconds, beating USA sprinter Erriyon Knighton's world under-20 record (19.69) and bettering Bolt's time of 19.93 from 2004 – the Jamaican's fastest time as a teenager.