If he hadn’t already broken Peter Norman’s long-standing 200m record, Gout Gout would have broken it on Sunday. The youngster now has the two quickest times by an Australian man.

Rohan Browning and Torrie Lewis won the men’s and women’s 100-metre finals in Perth by mere thousandths of seconds.

Teen sprint sensation Gout Gout now has something in Australia he hasn’t had before – competition. And it will be on show again next week.

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.

In Paris last year, Australian high jumpers Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson shared the podium with Olympic silver and bronze. Six months later, the two women have gone one better.

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.