Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herahset the second fastest time in the history of the 100m race, in the eighth round of the Diamond League in Athletics.
The sprinter at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics, where she won triple gold in the 100 and 200 races and the relay four times 100m.
Leading an all-Jamaican podium just as the case at the Tokyo Olympics earlier this month, Thompson-Herah powered home from her rivals to win in a new Jamaican and Diamond League record of 10.54 seconds.
Thompson-Herrah clocked a time of 10.54 seconds, behind the world record held by the American Florentine Griffith-Joyner 10.49 seconds.
‘To come back with a personal best after the Olympics, that is amazing’. said Thompson-Herah, whose face had lit up when she saw her time.
‘It means a lot to me, because my job is to inspire a generation. I have more races, so I don’t get too excited, too carried away. I have to continue doing the job’Thompson-Herah said.
The Jamaican sprinter, by 0.07 seconds, broke her personal record and the second before meeting Eugene in the history of this distance recorded in Tokyo with 10.61 seconds .
Thompson-Herah in Eugene beat her fellow veteran, world and two-time Olympic champions 2008 and 2012 Shelley Ann-Frasier-Pryce 10.73 seconds and Sherika Jackson 10.76 seconds, in a 100 percent Jamaican sprint domination.
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