Elaine Thompson-Herah runs second fastest women’s 100m of all time

Elaine Thompson-Herah ran the second quickest ladies’s 100m time, clocking a time of 10.54 seconds throughout the ladies’s 100m on the Eugene Diamond League on Saturday.

The Jamaican is swiftly closing in on American Florence Griffith-Joyner’s world report of 10.49 seconds, set in 1988. Simply weeks in the past, Thompson-Herah broke the Olympic report when she clocked in a time of 10.61 seconds within the ladies’s 100m Olympic last.

‘To come back again with a PB after the championships, that’s superb,’ she informed Athletics Weekly after the race. ‘I haven’t run that quick in 5 years. It means so much to me… as a result of my job is to encourage a era.’

Thompson-Herah’s Jamaican compatriots, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson, adopted her dwelling in second and third place respectively.

Canada’s Andre de Grasse, who took bronze in Tokyo, gained the boys’s 100m in 9.74 seconds. American Fred Kerley completed in second, adopted by compatriot Ronnie Baker in third.

200m stars

Elsewhere, Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith completed third within the 200m. She clocked a time of twenty-two.18, displaying a promising return from a hamstring harm which hampered her Olympic probabilities in Tokyo.

Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji gained the race in a PB of twenty-two.06, adopted by American Gabrielle Thomas in 22.10.

In the meantime, world champion and American Olympic bronze medallist Noah Lyles set a brand new Eugene assembly report within the males’s 200m. He completed in 19.52 – simply two one-hundredths of a second behind his PB.

Disappointment for GB’s Olympic medallists

In the meantime, Nice Britain’s Olympic medallists struggled to search out their type.

Tokyo silver medallist Keely Hodginson completed fifth within the ladies’s 800m, whereas Laura Muir, who additionally gained silver in Toyko, completed a disappointing 12^th within the 1500m – her lowest race end in seven years.

In an Instagram put up after the occasion, the 28-year-old Scot mentioned:

‘Wowsers not a great day on the workplace! Physique feeling fairly knackered off the again of the Olympics and jet lag. I do know I’m in a great place and simply want some extra time to recuperate.’

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Elsewhere, Nice Britain’s Jemma Reekie completed eighth in ladies’s 800m, whereas Amy-Eloise Markovc clocked the quickest time by a British feminine athlete in a full two-mile race. She completed in 9:21.98 to complete fifth within the occasion.

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