American teenager Lutkenhaus stuns Olympic champion as Gout learns lesson

Cooper Lutkenhaus, 17, wins 800m by 0.01sec Gout Gout sixth; Tebogo says: ‘He has a long way to go’ There are few venues more deeply embedded into track and field’s soul than the Bislett Stadion. An extraordinary 70 world records have been set here. Plenty of reputations have been made. Plenty more left frayed, too. And so it proved again as the brilliant 17-year-old American Cooper Lutkenhaus added to his staggering résumé by taking down the Olympic 800m champion, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, with a race for the ages in Oslo. But another, the Australian star Gout Gout, learned what it is like in the big leagues. Continue reading...

Sean Ingle at the Bislett Stadion · Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:54 PM
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American teenager Lutkenhaus stuns Olympic champion as Gout learns lesson

Cooper Lutkenhaus, 17, wins 800m by 0.01sec
Gout Gout sixth; Tebogo says: ‘He has a long way to go’

There are few venues more deeply embedded into track and field’s soul than the Bislett Stadion. An extraordinary 70 world records have been set here. Plenty of reputations have been made. Plenty more left frayed, too.

And so it proved again as the brilliant 17-year-old American Cooper Lutkenhaus added to his staggering résumé by taking down the Olympic 800m champion, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, with a race for the ages in Oslo. But another, the Australian star Gout Gout, learned what it is like in the big leagues.

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