Gout Gout has avoided the big guns of world sprinting in his much-anticipated senior global championships debut in Tokyo.

With the eyes of the track and field world upon him, the 17-year-old will run in the fifth of six 200m world championships heats on Wednesday, with the top three in each race and the next six fastest going through to the semis the following day.

There's nothing to suggest the occasion will get the better of the remarkably composed schoolboy superstar - and the task doesn't look hugely onerous on paper either.

Makanakaishe Charamba of Zimbabwe and Jamaican Bryan Levell have both run sub-20 seconds this year, something Gout has yet to manage, except when aided by an illegal tailwind.

But the duo are far from household names, unlike multiple world and Olympic gold meda

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