33 h. ago Wild scenes as Aussie sprint superstar Gout Gout stuns the sporting world AGAIN with second major milestone within days

Rising star Gout Gout has set tongues wagging with a another remarkable run at the at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth.

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34 h. ago Gout Gout stuns again to win 200m Australian title after rival Lachie Kennedy disqualified

Teenager wins 200m title in 19.84 after rival false startsPeter Bol returns to shatter Australian 800m recordGout Gout has recorded a stunning 19.84s in the final of the 200m at the national championships in Perth, but an illegal tailwind of 2.2m/s has again prevented him from officially breaking the 20-second barrier.The 17-year-old overcame nerves and two false starts, one which disqualified rival Lachie Kennedy, to soar down the straight and stop the clock a massive 14 hundredths of a second under his previous best. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Torrie Lewis and Rohan Browning edge out rising stars in dramatic 100m finals

Lewis holds off teenager Leah O’Brien in photo-finishBrowning pips Lachie Kennedy in men’s national finalRohan Browning and Torrie Lewis upstaged the flashy upstarts of Australian sprinting, claiming their respective 100m national titles in two split-second victories in Perth on Saturday.The women’s final was decided by a three-way photo finish between Lewis, Bree Rizzo and Leah O’Brien. The national record-holder stopped the clock at 11.24s, edging 17-year-old O’Brien by just four thousandths of a second, with Rizzo one hundredth of a second back. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Team GB star sends message to rivals after scooping first $100k Grand Slam jackpot

Matthew Hudson-Smith produced an impressive 200m win to back up second place in the 400m as he became the first champion of Grand Slam Track in Kingston, Jamaica

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2 w. ago Lachie Kennedy upstages Gout Gout on Australian athletics’ historic night

Pair produce thrilling men’s 200m at Maurie Plant meetClaudia Hollingsworth prevails in ‘crazy’ women’s 1500mTeenage sprint sensation Gout Gout has been upstaged by rival Lachie Kennedy in the 200m at the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne on a night that confirms athletics’ resurgence in Australia.In front of around 10,000 fans at Lakeside Stadium, the first sell-out at an Australian one-day athletics meet in more than two decades, the 17-year-old finished just four hundredths of a second behind his fellow Queenslander. Kennedy, who last week won Australia’s first medal in the 60m at the world indoor championships, finished in a personal best of 20.26s after running a powerful bend and holding off Gout at the line. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘We are favourites’: McLaren are ‘team to beat’ in F1 title race, admits Lando Norris

British driver won Australian Grand Prix in season openerNorris wary of complacency: ‘if you relax, you have failed’Britain’s Lando Norris believes he and his McLaren team are now favourites for the 2025 Formula One world championship after a strong victory at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, while Ferrari’s team principal Frédéric Vasseur admitted his team had to up their game in working with Lewis Hamilton.After what was a dramatic and incident-packed race in mixed wet and dry conditions, Norris took the flag for his first victory in Australia, the first time he has won the opening race of a season and the perfect start for the 25-year-old’s title ambitions. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago F1 Australian Grand Prix results: Lando Norris wins in chaotic race as 6 drivers crash out

Lando Norris began his Formula 1 title bid with a victory in a chaotic Australian Grand Prix as six drivers crashed out at Albert Park in wet conditions

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last month Lando Norris takes pole position for the Australian Grand Prix in perfect start to his title push with Max Verstappen third

JONATHAN McEVOY IN MELBOURNE: The Briton, who missed out on the championship to Max Verstappen last year, will be joined by his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri on the front row.

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last month Unruffled, unstoppable: Gout Gout’s sparkling summer continues with 100m title in Brisbane

Teen sensation clinches state under-20 title with 10.38 Gout broke 56-year Australian 200m record in DecemberUntapered, unruffled and unstoppable, sprinter Gout Gout has continued his sparkling summer by adding another title to his cabinet at the Queensland Athletics Championships in Brisbane.Three months after breaking the Australian 200m record at the same track, the teenager warmed up for the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne by claiming the state under-20 100m crown on Saturday. Continue reading...

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