Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce 10.63 #2nd Fastest All-time

Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce 10.63 #2nd Fastest All-time

Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce at 34 years of age sent a clear message to her rivals with a 10.63 run at the Olympic Destiny Series 2 meet at the National Stadium in Jamaica #2nd Fastest Alltime. She pulled away from Natasha Morrison who ran a respectable 10.95 (the 3rd fastest Jamaican in 2021 with a 10.87 run).  The race had a wind-legal +1.3 m/s following wind.

100m world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce just ran an NR WL 10.63 wind-legal 100m dash in Kingston, in just her third 100m final of the year. The performance smashed the world-leading time of 10.72 by Shaccari Richardson (USA). Elaine Thompson and Briana Williams two other Jamaicans will race at the Miramar meet in Florida tomorrow.

She’s now second ONLY to Florence Griffith Joyner 10.49 run. 

Let the Games begin!

Section  1     Wind: 1.3                                                
  1 #   35 Fraser-Pryce, She     Elite Track Club         10.63         
  2 #  142 Morrison, Natasha     Mvp Track &              10.95         
  3 #  135 Cameron, Kashieka     Mvp Track &              11.39         
  4 #  179 Williams, Jodean      Racers Track club        11.44         
  5 #  202 Burchell, Remona      SprinTec                 11.45         
  6 #  136 Dallas, Kedisha       Mvp Track &              11.53         
  7 #   60 Harriot, Michae       G.C Foster College       11.58

Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce opens with 11.00 into Head Wind (video)

Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce. Clocked a world-leading 11.00 into a tough -2.2 headwind. On Saturday’s July 7  Velocity Fest held at  Jamaica College.

Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce opens with 11.00 into Head Wind

This came a week after previous world leader Sha’Carri Richardson ran 11.05 in Florida.

Fraser-Pryce, Doha 2019 World champion, ran 11 seconds flat to beat Shashalee Forbes of Sprintec, 11.49.

As Noted in the video due to the Covid restrictions the 4 runners ran with one lane separation on the 8 lane track.

Bahamian Anthonique Strachan finished third in 11.84.

Nesta Carter, 10.38, won the men’s 100m ahead of Tyquendo Tracey, 10.39s and Romario Williams, 10.39.

Elaine Thompson loses to Sherikca Jackson

In the women’s 200m (-2.2m/s wind), Doha 2019 400m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson ran 22.89 to finish heat three ahead of Elaine Thompson; the Rio Olympic Games sprint double champion, 22.98.

Forbes ran 23.45 for third and Ronda Whyte, also of Sprintec, finished fourth in 23.93.

Julian Forte won the men’s 200m (-2.9m/s) in 20.71 ahead of Rasheed Dwyer, 21.06 and Romario Williams, 21.07.

Tajay Gayle, Shanieka Ricketts win

World long jump champion Tajay Gayle topped his pet event with a wind-assisted 8.52m (4.5m/s wind)

Doha 2019 triple jump silver medallist, Shanieka Ricketts, won her pet event with 14.11m.

Tovea Jenkins of Sprintec, 53.83 beat Junelle Bromfield of MVP, 54.06, in the women’s 400m.

Megan Tapper won the women’s 100m hurdles in 13.25 ahead of Amoi Brown, 13.46s.

Janieve Russell topped the women’s 400m hurdles in 57.29 ahead of Ronda Whyte, 57.97.

Tissanna Hickling topped the women’s long jump with 6.60m.

Source: https://trackalerts.com/fraser-pryce-runs-100m-world-lead-as-jamaican-stars-return-to-track-in-kingston/?fbclid=IwAR0oGSM-6Zrg_ir7X7Ag2uk4xfivievJ_uChjTADkwStwnHw4TKrSE9l8fE