The young sprinting sensation recorded the blistering time of 9.99s twice in one afternoon at the 2025 Australian Junior (Under Age) Athletics Championships in Perth on Thursday afternoon, taking out his heat in the afternoon and the final in the evening.
The official race clock had initially displayed 10.02s for Gout's heat but was adjusted to 9.99s after the race conclusion, leaving it up to a television reporter to break the news of the feat to Gout shortly after the race.
With his focus firmly on Thursday night's final, in which he won with an illegal time of 9.99s, as well as his 200m campaign in the open age category, and perhaps knowing that the time would be unofficial because of the tailwind of 3.5m/s, Gout received the news with no excitement whatsoever.
"It doesn't feel very special," he told the meet broadcast.
"This is the stuff you've got to do to get to the next level, so sub-10 (seconds) was inevitable. Hopefully it will keep happening."
His two races were the third and fourth time in history that the ten-second barrier was broken at an Australian athletics meet, legal or otherwise, following Patrick Johnson and Rowan Browning.
Gout recently found out his handicap for his inaugural Stawell Gift appearance in Easter Monday, where the winner of both the men's and women's sprints will pocket a $40,000 prize.
He will be starting 0.75m in front of 21-year-old backmarker Lachlan Kennedy, who narrowly defeated Gout at the recent Maurie Plant Meet at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne.