The legend of the Jamaican sprint Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryceeight -time Olympic medalist, achieved this Saturday at Nairobi a impressive mark of 10 “67 in his first 100m race of the season, the fastest of the year.
The 35-year-old sprinter, Olympic runner-up in Tokyo last summer, swept this meeting of the “Continental Tour Gold” (2nd world division) in the Kenyan capital.
The new sensation of the sprint, the Namibian Christine Mboma18, abruptly stopped his efforts mid -race before falling and being evacuated, apparently injured.
At 10 “67 despite a slight headwind (-0.4 m/s), Fraser-Pryce approached his personal best (10” 60 in August 2021 in Lausanne) early in the season.
Only four other athletes in history ran faster than the Caribbean woman on Saturday, some of them several times: the Americans Marion-Jones (best time of 10 “65) and Carmelita Jeter (10 “64), his Olympic partner Elaine Thompson-Herah (10 “54) and the controversial American world record holder Florence Griffith Joyner (10 “49).
Source: La Verdad
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