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Wyomia Tyus's 1968 Olympic gold medal performance and Renate Stecher's 1972 Olympic championship win, both in 11.07, were the fastest recorded fully electronic 100-metre races to that time and were ratified as world records. However, Tyus's 11.07 was later adjusted to 11.08. [1]
Over the two-day trials, Griffith Joyner recorded the three fastest times for a woman at 100 meters: 10.49 in the quarter-final, 10.70 in the semifinal, and 10.61 in the final. [30] [23] At the same Olympic trials, she also set an American record at the 200-meter distance with a time of 21.77 seconds. [31]
In her first post-Olympic race on 21 August, competing at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Thompson-Herah stormed to the 100 m victory with a new career best of 10.54 seconds, the second-fastest time in women's history and only 0.05 s off the world record. [33] She became the first woman to break the 40 km/h barrier. [34]
Shericka Jackson produced a stunning performance at the Jamaican Championships on Saturday as she ran a world-leading 10.65 seconds in the 100 meters.
Sha'Carri Richardson is again one of the fastest women in the world. At the prestigious Doha Diamond League on Friday, Richardson ran the 100-meter race in 10.76 seconds, the fastest time in the ...
Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track-and-field athlete and former professional basketball player. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Australia, but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to lying ...
Australian teenage sprinting sensation Gout Gout recorded the fourth-fastest under-18 100m time in history on Friday, clocking in at 10.04 seconds at the All-Schools Athletics Championships in ...
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