After a rain delay within the Stade de France, Julien Alfred of St. Lucia gained her nation’s first-ever Olympic gold medal Saturday night within the last of the ladies’s 100m, operating 10.72 seconds–a brand new private finest and nationwide document for the small island nation, and the eighth quickest time by any girl in 2024.
Alfred left Sha’Carri Richardson, the reigning world champion and the quickest girl but this yr, trailing behind her for silver (10.87). Richardson’s teammate, Melissa Jefferson, who had the fourth quickest time this yr, took bronze, in 10.92.
Alfred is the 2024 World Indoors champion over 60m.
If Richardson had gained, it will have been the primary girls’s 100m gold for Group USA since 1996.
However essentially the most surprising piece of reports on Saturday was that three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was seen leaving the Stade de France moments earlier than her 100m semi-final warmth, and didn’t compete. Fraser-Pryce introduced in February that she would retire after the Paris Olympics, however nobody anticipated this.
Girls’s 100m last outcomes
- Julien Alfred (St. Lucia) 10.72
- Sha’Carri Richardson (USA) 10.87
- Melissa Jefferson (USA) 10.92
- Daryll Neita (Nice Britain) 10.96
- Twanisha Terry (USA) 10.97
- Mujinga Kambundji (Switzerland) 10.99
- Tia Clayton (Jamaica) 11.04
- Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith 13.84
Canada’s Audrey Leduc, who broke her personal Canadian document within the heats with a ten.95 clocking on Friday, completed fifth in her warmth, in 11.10, and didn’t advance to the ultimate.
Audrey Leduc sprints to 100m nationwide document in Olympic debut
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