Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce runs world’s fastest 100m this year

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Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce adopted her unprecedented fifth world championship within the 100m by operating the world’s quickest time this 12 months at a Diamond League meet in Poland on Saturday.

Fraser-Pryce, a 35-year-old mother, clocked 10.66 seconds, one hundredth sooner than she ran to win the world title in Oregon three weeks in the past. She beat a discipline that included prime People Aleia Hobbs (second place, 10.94), Melissa Jefferson (seventh, 11.18) and TeeTee Terry (eighth, 11.20).

It marked the third-fastest time of Fraser-Pryce’s profession. Fraser-Pryce, who received the Olympic 100m in 2008 and 2012, has damaged 10.70 seconds six occasions, all since coming back from 2017 childbirth. No different girl has damaged 10.70 greater than 4 occasions in a profession.

Fraser-Pryce, already the oldest world champion in a person occasion on the observe, can in 2024 change into the primary girl to win three Olympic 100m titles and the oldest Olympic champion in any race on the observe.

Full Diamond League results are here. The circuit strikes to Monaco on Wednesday, stay on Peacock.

Additionally in Poland, American Trayvon Bromell received the boys’s 100m in 9.95 seconds right into a .7 meter/second headwind. Bromell, the world 100m bronze medalist, edged coaching companion and world silver medalist Marvin Bracy-Williams, who ran 10.00. Fred Kerley, who led a U.S. sweep of the boys’s 100m medals at worlds, didn’t enter the meet.

Different world champions picked up victories in Poland, together with Jamaican Shericka Jackson within the 200m (21.84, distancing Olympic and world 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo (22.35)), Brazilian Alison dos Santos within the 400m hurdles (47.80 in a race that didn’t have rivals Karsten Warholm and Rai Benjamin), American Michael Norman within the 400m (44.11, topping world silver medalist Kirani James by .44) and Swede Mondo Duplantis within the pole vault (6.10 meters, with world silver medalist Chris Nilsen taking fifth with a 5.53-meter clearance).

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