Gout Gout: The 60 Minutes Interview

Name: Gout Gout: The 60 Minutes Interview
Uploaded: 2026-05-11T03:02:35.000Z
Duration: 13 min 7 s
Channel: 60 Minutes

60 MinutesMay 11, 202613m

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Introduction to Gout Gout's Sprinting Phenomenon0:04 Coach Dy Shepard's Role and Discipline3:00 Background and Discovery4:01 Gout's Unique Physique and Development7:00 Sponsorships, Family, and Training Philosophy9:00 Recent Achievements and Future Outlook11:00

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18-year-old Australian sprinter Gout Gout, born to South Sudanese immigrants in Brisbane, shattered the world under-18 200m record with a 19.67-second run, surpassing Usain Bolt's mark from 2003 and qualifying for the World Championships, positioning him as a medal contender for the 2028 and 2032 Olympics. Under the strict guidance of his longtime coach Dy Shepard—whom he met at age 12-13 at Ipswich Grammar—Gout maintains discipline amid hype, sponsorships like a $4M Adidas deal, and his unique lanky physique that enables exceptional top-end speed and elastic energy storage. Despite rapid rise, he and Shepard prioritize patient development to avoid burnout, focusing on steady progress over fame.

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There may be no sport older than sprinting, and there's something singularly intoxicating about speed, about watching the fastest humans on the planet thunder down the straightaway like Usain Bolt. All the more so when they've navigated a circuitous path to get there. Remember the name Gout Gout, an 18-year-old Australian. When he's not watching anime or taking photos on his Kodak camera, he's running and winning races in roughly the time it takes to spit out this sentence. By the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles in just over three years, Gout Gout could bolt to a medal.

Fix your eyes on lane six, the runner in the maroon shirt. 16 months ago in the Australian High School Championships, Gout Gout, then an 11th grader, ran a stunning race. >> A really good start there. And now we really start to open him up. So let the legs loose and let the kid run. << One imagines a car versus a fleet of bikes. Legs pumping like supercharged pistons. >> He is OUT OF THIS WORLD. THAT IS not human. << Gout turned in a time of 20.04 seconds in the 200 meter dash, clocking the fastest time in Australian history, breaking a mark set by another runner at the 1968 Olympics.

These are adults record. Yeah, but these are adult times and me just a kid. << Gout's time in the 200 also broke the world age group record set in 2003 by Usain Bolt, the Jamaican eight-time gold medalist, considered the sport's greatest ever. >> This race, you basically became the fastest 16-year-old in history. << >> My first couple steps, I had a good start. And if I have a good start, it's kind of over cuz my top end speed is great. And once I get in the top end speed, I'm flying. <<

What is running nourishing in you? << >> Running just feeds that inner child in me that wants to feel free. Running makes me feel like myself for sure. << >> This is what you were meant to do. << >> Yeah. This is what I was pretty much put on this earth to do and that's what I'm doing. <<

It's made him an overnight sensation. He keeps getting faster and on his current trajectory, he could be a force at the LA Olympics in 2028. Four years after that, the ultimate home game. >> We're in Brisbane, you know, like this is home. Place I grew up. << Brisbane, the only home Gout's known, hosts the 2032 Summer Games. Gout will be 24 then, the age when sprinters tend to hit their stride. >> So, let's watch the young SUPERSTAR RISE. HE'S FLYING. HE WILL BE GOUT OF THIS UNIVERSE. << The reaction was warranted. >> Unbelievable. << He didn't just win this race. The time qualified him for the World Championships.

The huge new personal best. << If you worry all the hype is enough to inflate the ego of a teenager, don't. Note the woman in the visor. That's Dy Shepard, Gout's coach, the only one he's ever had, a grouchy grandma about to break up all the fun. >> Do we need to chase the attention? I don't like the attention. It's not my cup of tea. Gout handles it totally different to me. But good cop, bad cop. << >> You're okay being the bad cop? << >> Hell yeah. It doesn't bother me one bit. <<

Hey, mate. << When Gout acts his age and goofs off at practice, his coach isn't having it. >> Any excuse for real? But like if I did a curve ball and the wind took it, you know, << >> you're lucky you can run. <<

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Gout Gout: The 60 Minutes Interview

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