Unstoppable Fraser-Pryce seals 100m win in Monaco Diamond League

MONACO, Aug 10 (Reuters) – World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce scorched the observe with the quickest time over 100 metres this yr on the Monaco Diamond League assembly on Wednesday, profitable the race in 10.62 seconds to comfortably beat Shericka Jackson and Marie-Josee Ta Lou.

Contemporary from a fifth world title in Eugene, Oregon final month, Fraser-Pryce had produced blistering performances to clock 10.66 on the Silesia Diamond League occasion on Saturday and 10.67 on the Hungarian Grand Prix two days later.

She went even faster in preferrred situations at Monaco’s Stade Louis II to simply break the ten.70 barrier for the sixth time in a stellar season, whereas Jackson (10.71) and Ta Lou (10.72) additionally ran private bests in an absorbing race.

“I did what I wanted to and we had enjoyable and let the clock do the speaking… to have the ability to run 10.60 persistently means lots. It is exceptional. It is laborious to maintain up the velocity at this excessive stage,” the 35-year-old Fraser-Pryce mentioned.

“I am in my late thirties and I really feel I’ve extra to provide. I sit up for do my private finest (10.60) throughout the remainder of the season and run quick…. Now, we break after which we come once more. I am unsure about Lausanne (on Aug. 26) but.”

Noah Lyles received his second 200m race of the Diamond League season and broke his personal assembly file from 2018 with an outstanding effort of 19.48. Erriyon Knighton (19.84) and Michael Norman (19.95) ensured a podium sweep for the US.

Double Olympic and world 1500m champion Religion Kipyegon got here agonisingly near shattering Genzebe Dibaba’s world file of three:50.07 set in 2015, as she crossed the end line in 3:50.37 to accept a Kenyan nationwide file.

“I have been chasing the time for fairly a while however I am pleased with the private finest,” mentioned Kipyegon, whose effort was the second quickest time over the gap. “It appears I did not give all however I attempted laborious.

“I knew this was one of the best place to get the world file however I am so dissatisfied I misplaced it within the final metres. I hope for one of the best subsequent time…. I used to be prepared for it as we speak. I am heading residence now and wish to get an excellent Diamond League ultimate in Zurich.”

Watched on by world record-holder Sydney McLaughlin within the stands, Jamaican Rushell Clayton defeated Commonwealth champion Janieve Russell within the ladies’s 400m hurdles to complete forward of her compatriot with a private better of 53.33 seconds.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas eased to victory within the ladies’s 400m race in 49.28, the fourth time the world champion has gone beneath 50 seconds this season.

Briton Jake Wightman, who had surprised Jakob Ingebrigtsen within the males’s 1,500m on the worlds final month, continued his profitable kind within the 1,000m occasion in 2:13.88 minutes — the quickest time by anybody over the gap in six years.

Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru, enhancing by Pritha Sarkar

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