Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah wins Paris Diamond League with meet record time of 10.72sec

Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah wins Paris Diamond League with meet record time of 10.72sec

The Jamaican star clocked a meet record of 10.72sec to see off compatriot and Tokyo bronze medallist Shericka Jackson in 10.97sec.

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Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah wins Paris Diamond League with meet record time of 10.72sec

Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah stormed to victory in the women’s 100m at the Paris Diamond League on Saturday although the 33-year-old world record remains frustratingly out of reach.

The Jamaican star clocked a meet record of 10.72sec to see off compatriot and Tokyo bronze medallist Shericka Jackson in 10.97sec.

Thompson-Herah, 29, who won three golds in Tokyo with triumphs in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay, has been threatening Florence Griffith-Joyner’s world record of 10.49sec.

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Last weekend in Eugene, she ran the second-fastest time in history of 10.54sec and then timed 10.64sec in Lausanne on Thursday behind fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s 10.60sec, the third-fastest ever mark.

Fraser-Pryce, the silver medallist in Tokyo, pulled out of the Paris meet citing fatigue.

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