The world under-20 200m record-holder picked up a hamstring damage throughout coaching in Brisbane.
Gout Gout, the Australian teenage dash sensation, has needed to curtail his 2026 season after tearing his hamstring.
The 18-year-old, who had hoped to compete at subsequent month’s World Athletics U20 Championships in Oregon, picked up the damage throughout coaching in Brisbane.
An MRI confirmed that Gout suffered a grade 3C partial tear of the proximal biceps femoris tendon, affecting lower than 10% of the tendon’s cross-section however spanning eight centimetres in size.
It means he not solely has to withdraw from the world junior championships however can be out for the remainder of the 2026 season.
Gout stated: „I’m very disenchanted however I’ve no different chance however to simply accept the state of affairs. I perceive that is a part of athletics. My focus now might be on my rehab within the coming weeks and months and making certain I come again in 2027 higher and stronger and sooner.”
Earlier this yr Gout recorded a world under-20 200m file of 19.67 on the Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney.
Not solely did he break Erriyon Knighton’s ratified junior mark of 19.69 – set on the 2022 USATF Outside Championships – however he additionally went faster than Bolt within the under-20 class.
Bolt, who received the world junior 200m title on residence soil in 2002, clocked 19.93 on the 2004 Carifta Video games in Bermuda, which generated headlines all over the world.
Final September Gout mad his senior world championships debut in Tokyo, the place he superior by way of his world 200m warmth however failed to succeed in the ultimate.
