Sad and grateful was how athletics prodigy Gout Gout farewelled his junior career and one of the most dazzling years on the track for an Australian sprinter.

The 17-year-old thanked his coach Di Sheppard and Ipswich Grammar School for the wild ride as he signed off as a schoolboy athlete by breaking his own meet record at the GPS Track and Field Championships in Brisbane on Friday.

Gout skipped his pet 200m event to run the 400m and 4x100m relay at the meet, and things almost did not go to script.

Brisbane Grammar School's Seth Kennedy had earlier broken Gout's 200m GPS record in a stunning 20.64sec, and he pushed the Ipswich star to his full capacity in the one-lap event. Loading Twitter content

Gout broke his own meet record to win in a personal-best 46.14, just a lunge ahead of

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