{"id":248661,"date":"2026-06-17T01:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/gout-gout-flies-home-for-third-in-rarely-contested-150m-behind-us-great-noah-lyles\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:30:30","slug":"gout-gout-flies-home-for-third-in-rarely-contested-150m-behind-us-great-noah-lyles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/gout-gout-flies-home-for-third-in-rarely-contested-150m-behind-us-great-noah-lyles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gout Gout flies home for third in rarely-contested 150m behind US great Noah Lyles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Teenage sprint sensation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/gout-gout\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gout Gout<\/a> has flown home to finish third behind his training mate and new 150m world record holder Noah Lyles at the Golden Spike track and field meet in Ostrava.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Paris Olympics gold medallist Lyles clocked 14.67 seconds in the rarely-contested distance, smashing the previous previous mark of 14.92 set by Jamaica\u2019s Kishane Thompson earlier this year in Florida.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"30a938f1-9301-485f-ad76-75836dcd5a9a\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-47fhrn\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:2,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;American teenager Lutkenhaus stuns Olympic champion as Gout learns lesson&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;30a938f1-9301-485f-ad76-75836dcd5a9a&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/10\/american-teenager-lutkenhaus-stuns-olympic-champion-as-gout-gout-learns-harsh-lesson&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:2}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Second-placed South African Sinesipho Dambile (14.78) also dipped under Thompson\u2019s previous record, while the fast-finishing Gout was third in a national record of 14.96.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It was a huge improvement on Gout\u2019s Diamond League debut last week in Oslo, when the 18-year-old struggled out of the blocks and could only finish sixth in the 200m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThis is definitely a race I was needing after Oslo, and I am glad I got it, and I am ready for more,\u201d told the Straight At It podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cUsually when I get a bad start it\u2019s hard for me to come back, but today I got an OK start and I brought it home.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"3e77989e-22e6-4bce-8f73-866325d25fbe\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-fd61eq\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Simon Verherstraeten, Noah Lyles, Gout Gout and Sinesipho Dambile.<\/span> Photograph: Martin Div\u00ed\u0161ek\/EPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/12\/australian-athletics-sydney-national-championships-gout-lachlan-kennedy-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gout smashed his own Australian 200m record<\/a> with a time of 19.67 at the national championships in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It was faster than the legendary Usain Bolt had run at the same age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The flying Queenslander has decided to skip the upcoming Glasgow Commonwealth Games to focus on the 200m at Under-20 world championships in Oregon.<\/p>\n<figure data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.NewsletterSignupBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\"><gu-island name=\"EmailSignUpWrapper\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"visible\" 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won the 100m at the Paris Games and is a multiple world champion over 100m and 200m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He and Gout embraced after crossing the finish line in Ostrava. The pair have regularly trained together at Lyles\u2019s US base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In other action at the Golden Spike meet on Tuesday night (Wednesday morning AEST), Australian Peter Bol won the 1000m in two minutes 15.13 seconds, also bettering the Australian record in a non-championship event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/17\/gout-gout-sprinter-third-150m-sprint-behind-usa-noah-lyles-golden-spike-ostrava\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout has flown home to finish third behind his training mate and new 150m world record holder Noah Lyles at the Golden Spike track and field meet in Ostrava. Paris Olympics gold medallist Lyles clocked 14.67 seconds in the rarely-contested distance, smashing the previous previous mark of 14.92 set by Jamaica\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}