Eighteen-year-old Australian Gout Gout ran 200m faster than sprinting great Usain Bolt managed by the same age as he raced to a national title on Sunday.
The teenager clocked a superb time of 19.67 seconds to set a world under-20 record.
It was the first time that Gout had gone under the 20-second mark legally, after a wind-assisted 19.84 last season, and is the leading time in the world this year.
Gout previously had the quickest-ever time by a 16-year-old, setting a national record of 20.06 when he burst on to the scene in 2024.
Sunday’s mark in Sydney put him ahead of Jamaican eight-time Olympic champion Bolt’s time of 19.93 back in 2004.
Bolt was aged 17 when setting what was then a world junior record and never bettered that time as a teenager, before setting a string of senior world records later in his career.
Gout has indicated that he will skip the Commonwealth Games, which begin in Glasgow on 23 July, to focus on the World Under-20 Championships in Oregon in early August.
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