Gout Gout and Lachie Kennedy.

‘It wouldn’t be fun if he just destroyed everyone’:Gout runs second on stunning night for Australian sprinting

A sellout crowd 10,000-strong headed to the Maurie Plant Meet to watch dominant junior Gout Gout run his first men’s 200-metre race. The spectacle didn’t disappoint.

  • Michael Gleeson

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Eleanor Patterson won bronze at the Paris Olympics

From Leongatha to Turin,Patterson hopes changes deliver more gold

Eleanor Patterson has moved to live in Italy,and changed her coach and her run-up. But she’s still winning medals. She just wants more of them to gleam gold.

  • Michael Gleeson
Athletics Australia president Jane Flemming.

Australian Athletics boss Jane Flemming backs DNA testing for female athletes

Noting her own experiences and those of athletes decades before her,Flemming says the issues of gender in female sport might be complex,but they are not new.

  • Konrad Marshall
Caster Semenya.

Athletics becomes first Olympic sport to introduce DNA sex testing for women

World Athletics will mandate genetics testing for athletes entering female competitions to “doggedly protect” the female track and field category.

  • Tariq Panja
Teenage star Gout is helping drive interest in athletics.

‘Like he’s running downhill’:Freeman praises ‘extraordinary’ teen star

Cathy Freeman loves what she sees of global sprint sensation Gout Gout,who has driven a surge in interest for Saturday night’s Maurie Plant Meet.

  • Michael Gleeson
Nicola Olyslagers (right) and Eleanor Patterson took gold and silver at the world indoor championships.

Australia takes record medal haul at world championships

Four medals on the final day,including gold and silver in the high jump,have delivered Australia not only its biggest world indoor championships haul but almost doubled its previous highest medal tally.

  • Michael Gleeson
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Sam Ruthe poses next to his record-breaking time after breaking the four-minute mile.

Teen becomes youngest ever to break four-minute mile

A 15-year-old schoolboy from New Zealand has become the youngest person ever to break the four-minute mile – and he’s on his way to compete against Australia’s teenage prodigy.

  • Michael Gleeson
Gout celebrates his impressive performance.

He’s 17 and the world’s fastest man over 200m this year,but we should no longer be shocked by Gout Gout

If Gout Gout can do this now at the age of 17,what will he be able to do when he is not carrying his play lunch to school in Tupperware and sitting through a double period of maths?

  • Michael Gleeson

Faster than Usain Bolt at the same age:The Ipswich schoolboy turned $6 million man

Meet Queensland teenager Gout Gout:A-grade student,prefect,Mario Kart fiend – and,at 17,the talk of global sprinting.

  • Konrad Marshall

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