Noah Lyles Linked With Gout Gout Showdown at Next Year’s Stawell Gift As Organisers Brace For Big Names

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Noah Lyles Linked With Gout Gout Showdown at Next Year’s Stawell Gift As Organisers Brace For Big Names

Evans Ousuru 00:15 - 02.05.2025

Stawell Gift Organisers are contemplating inviting Noah Lyles to race Gout Gout on home soil next year.

Olympic champion Noah Lyles could headline Stawell Gift event next year if it all goes well according to organisers.

After the success of this year’s Stawell Gift despite neither Gout Gout nor Lachlan Kennedy making the final, key figures are reportedly set to present a mega-money offer to the world’s fastest man, Noah Lyles, in an attempt to get him to race on the iconic grass track in 2025 according to News.

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Despite Stawell Gift organisers left to rue harsh handicaps given to headline talent Gout and Kennedy at this year’s Stawell Gift, the event was an overwhelming success.

Bumper crowds made their way to Central Park for all three days and it has led the Victorian Athletic League (VAL) - which organises Australia’s oldest footrace - to consider tabling a bumper offer to the reigning 100m Olympic gold medallist in an attempt to get him to race Gout on Australian soil in what would certainly attract record crowds.

“There are a couple of people angling in that space … There are a few influential people that have some backing that suggested they’re going to try to see what they can do. There’s plenty of people around with money to support that,” VAL president McDonough said.

"Someone might say, ‘Look, we can spend half a million to get Noah Lyles’, and he might not come for that.

“Who knows? By the time we get to next year, Gout could be just as big as Noah Lyles.

… (But) we’d be interested (in bringing Noah Lyles to Australia), the VAL, and I’m sure Stawell would. We would be super excited to have any of the international superstars come along, like one of those big-name Americans, to take on Gout.”

Gout Gout's career is on an upward trajectory since shooting to prominence December 2024.

In January this year, the teen sensation spent two weeks in Florida training with Noah Lyles in a bid to try improve his time on track.

Gout Gout is set to rekindle rivalry with American Lyles at the World Championships in Tokyo, September as the pair go head-to-head in Japan's capital.