Third fastest 100m of all time for Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
LAUSANNE: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce avenged her Olympic Games defeat to Jamaican compatriot Elaine Thompson-Herah by winning the 100m at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on Thursday in the third fastest ever time.
The 34-year-old Olympic champion from 2008 and 2012 clocked 10.60sec, just five days after Thompson-Herah had run the second fastest of 10.54sec at Eugene in the United States.
Thompson-Herah, the triple gold medallist from Tokyo thanks to wins in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay, was second Thursday in 10.64sec, the eighth-best time in the event’s history.
“I had a very good feeling and I’m happy to have been able to do that time,” said Fraser-Pryce after her win in front of a packed, unmasked crowd at a chilly Stade…
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