Teenaged sprint sensation Gout Gout has completed a winning double at the Queensland athletics championships with victory in his favoured 200m event.
The 19-year-old stopped the clock at 20.42 seconds into a 2.1m per second headwind on Sunday.
Gout's time was well shy of the Australian and Oceania record of 20.02 he set last year in Ostrava, but it was still another step in the right direction early in the season.
A day earlier at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre, Gout got out of his sick bed to win the under-20 100m title in 10.20.
He had been battling a head cold and the wet, windy conditions were hardly conducive to fast sprinting.
Three weeks ago in the Dane Bird-Smith Shield Meet at the same venue, Gout won the 100m in 10.00 as he again came within a whisker of becoming just the third Australian to run a legal sub-10 time.
Gout's main target this year is the world junior championships in Oregon in August where he hopes to emulate the legendary Usain Bolt by winning the 200m.
