Gout, a 17-year-old 100m and 200m sprint genius, won his first call for Australian teams after sending out the national championship earlier this month.
Teen sprinter gout was confirmed in the Australian team at the World Athletics Championships held in Tokyo in September.
The 17-year-old son of a South Sudan immigrant will run in the 200 metres after winning his first national title, recording 19.84 seconds with winds in Perth this month. Gout running was the second fastest ever for athletes under 20 under all conditions.
The rapid rise of Queen’s Lander raised a comparison with Jamaican Sprint Great Sign Bolt, becoming a poster boy for Australian track and field seven years before hosting the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
“We are very excited to be selected to run the 200 in Tokyo at the World Championships,” Gaut said in an Australian Athletics Statement on Wednesday.
“That’s what we’ve been aiming for. We look forward to September and we look forward to seeing what we can do with the best and best.”
Gout is the headline of talented young conditioning for the Australian team. This includes 18-year-old Cameron Myers, who won 1,500 national titles in Perth among under-20 athletes (3:47.48) in the Millrose Games in New York in February, and ran the fastest indoor miles among under-20 athletes (3:47.48).
Former High Jump World champion Eleanor Patterson, who won the bronze at the Parisio Games, was also selected in the first tranche of athletes confirmed by the team on Wednesday.
Patterson won his sixth medal in the major championship and won indoor silver in Nanjing in March behind his compatriot Nicola Oris Lagers.
Peter Bol, who finished fourth in the 800 at the Tokyo Olympics, will return to Japan’s capital in good form after winning a national record (1:43.79) at the Perth Championship.
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