Gout Gout's 100m personal best crushed by 16-year-old Japanese athlete Sorato Shimizu
Sorato Shimizu has sent a warning shot to both Gout and the world after running a blinding 10.00 flat 100m sprint at a meet in Hiroshima, Japan on Saturday.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Teenage sensation betters Gout Gout in blazing 100m run.
The teenager, who is 14 months younger than Gout, smashed the Aussie prodigy's personal best time of 10.17.
Ominously, he is also now quicker than Usain Bolt at the same age.
The Jamaican Olympic legend had not recorded anything faster than Shimizu's 10-flat at any stage until after he turned 20.
Shimizu's run set a new 100m under-18 world record, which was previously held by both American Christian Miller and Thailand's Puripol Boonson, who had ran 10.06 seconds.
Miller set the mark in July 2023 before Boonson joined him just under three months later.
He is also the equal fifth-fastest Japanese runner of all time in the event.
Speaking after the run, a hungry Shimizu said he didn't even hit his own personal goal, but said he was happy to have broken the country's high school record, which was previously Yoshihide Kiryu's 10.01 set in 2013.
'I was determined to run under 10 seconds heading into the final,' he said.
'I'm happy to have set a high school record. I'd like to get a taste of it if I can make it.'
It comes just over a month after Gout stitched together another Australian record when he won his first senior international race on foreign soil.
The 17-year-old, returning to competition for the first time since April, stunned the Golden Spike Meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic in late June.
Gout powered away late and crossed the line in 20.02 seconds to defeat recent Diamond League winner Reynier Mena.
'I've felt stronger in training these last couple of months and I've felt good since I got to Europe last Thursday,' Gout said at the time.
'I knew Mena would come hard at me the first 100 but I was confident I'd be close enough to come home strongly in the second part of the race which is of course my stronger part.
'I felt calm but strong as I came off the turn and was confident I'd be strong enough to get the win.
'Another national record! Pretty happy with that, it's not a bad first-up in Europe!'
Gout is building towards the 200m at the Tokyo world championships in September, and recently confirmed he would run for Australia at next year's Commonwealth Games in Scotland.
The major competition will take place in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2 next year and be broadcast exclusively live and free on Seven and 7plus Sport.
Gout has taken the sprinting world by storm with his freakish talents, and next year's Games will be the biggest event of his budding career.
It's unclear which event the 17-year-old is planning to run, but he is expected to compete before going to the World Junior Championships in Oregon.
'We need to wait for the full Commonwealth Games program to be released but yes, we are planning that Gout will be available to run at an event in Glasgow before going on to the World Juniors in Eugene,' Gout's manager, James Templeton, said.
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