International Athletics Championship: Superb Fraser-Pryce leads Jamaican blank sweep in girls’s 100 metres

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce claimed an astonishing 5th international 100 metres identify on Sunday when she clocked 10.67 seconds to edge Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah in a super Jamaican blank sweep.

Fraser-Pryce were given her same old very good get started and held her shape as fast-finishing Jackson clocked a private absolute best 10.73 for silver and Thompson-Herah took bronze with 10.81.

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No country had finished a medal sweep within the girls’s 100m on the worlds, despite the fact that Jamaica did it finally 12 months’s Olympics by means of the similar 3 athletes – and likewise in 2008.

Fraser-Pryce now has 5 100m international titles and two Olympic 100m golds and at 35 displays completely no indicators of slowing down as Sunday’s time used to be the quickest profitable time of all the ones seven world victories.

Thompson-Herah, who has gained again to again Olympic dash doubles and is second-fastest at the all-time record at the back of simplest Florence Griffith-Joyner, remains to be with out a person international identify.

Dina Asher-Smith, silver medallist in 2019, matched her British report of 10.83 in lane 8 for fourth.