Noah Lyles Sets 150m World Record in Ostrava; Gout Gout Third

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’s Kishane Thompson earlier this year in Florida.

Second-placed South African Sinesipho Dambile (14.78) also dipped under Thompson’s previous record, while the fast-finishing Gout was third in a national record of 14.96.

It was a huge improvement on Gout’s 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.

“This is definitely a race I was needing after Oslo, and I am glad I got it, and I am ready for more,” told the Straight At It podcast.

“Usually when I get a bad start it’s hard for me to come back, but today I got an OK start and I brought it home.”

Earlier this year, Gout smashed his own Australian 200m record with a time of 19.67 at the national championships in Sydney.

It was faster than the legendary Usain Bolt had run at the same age.

The flying Queenslander has decided to skip the upcoming Glasgow Commonwealth Games to focus on the 200m at Under-20 world championships in Oregon.

US star Lyles, 28, won the 100m at the Paris Games and is a multiple world champion over 100m and 200m.

He and Gout embraced after crossing the finish line in Ostrava. The pair have regularly trained together at Lyles’s US base.

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.