After a rain prolong within the Stade de France, Julien Alfred of St. Lucia received her country’s first-ever Olympic gold medal Saturday night within the last of the ladies’s 100m, working 10.72 seconds–a brand new private easiest and nationwide file for the small island country, and the 8th quickest time by way of any lady in 2024.
Alfred left Sha’Carri Richardson, the reigning global champion and the quickest lady but this 12 months, trailing in the back of her for silver (10.87). Richardson’s teammate, Melissa Jefferson, who had the fourth quickest time this 12 months, took bronze, in 10.92.
Alfred is the 2024 Global Indoors champion over 60m.
If Richardson had received, it might were the primary ladies’s 100m gold for Group USA since 1996.
However probably the most surprising piece of stories on Saturday was once that three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was once noticed 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 effects
- 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 file within the heats with a ten.95 clocking on Friday, completed 5th in her warmth, in 11.10, and didn’t advance to the overall.
Audrey Leduc sprints to 100m nationwide file in Olympic debut
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