The Ladies’s 100 meters lived as much as its hype. Stuart Weir made the ladies’s 100m the main focus of his second story on day three. From the semi-finals, when Julien Alfred and Sha’Carri Richardson dueled, it was advised that Saint Lucian outstarted the American and regarded able to roll within the last.
The climate was moist, numerous rain coming down, as the perfect sprinters on this planet battled for the Ladies’s 100 meters title. Stuart Weir was there, and he despatched us this piece on the ultimate and the primary gold medal for the 180,000 fellow Saint Lucians, some who watched the race on an enormous TV display within the middle of a metropolis.
Thanks, Stuart Weir!
Ladies’s 100 meters – Olympic champion
Julian Alfred is the Olympic 100m champion, one thing that nobody would have predicted a 12 months in the past! In final 12 months’s world championship, Sha’Carri Richardson received in 10.65 from Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Alfred was fifth in 10.93. Jackson determined to withdraw from the 100 to focus on the 200. Richardson had run a ten.71 already this 12 months, a lot sooner than Alfred had accomplished. Alfred had received final month in Monaco in 10.85 into a powerful wind. But the view was that if Richardson ran a ten.6 or perhaps a low 10.7, the gold medal appeared hers.
The semi-finals informed us so much, too, beginning with the unhappy withdrawal of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce with, in line with World Athletics, an damage drawback. Surprisingly, within the three semis, solely 5 girls went underneath 10 seconds
Julian Alfred 10.84
Sha’Carri Richardson 10.89
Tia Clayton 10.89
Darrly Neita 10.97
Melissa Jefferson 10.99
Dina Asher-Smith fifth in 11.10 didn’t made the ultimate, the primary time that Darryl Neita has made a serious last that Asher-Smith didn’t. Dina moved to USA final 12 months, leaving her life-long coach John Blackie to work with Edrick Floreal in Austin Texas. However 2024 has been a disappointing 12 months with a greatest 100m time of 10.96.
Maybe Alfred had gained the higher hand with a sooner semi-final however equally if Richardson may produce a ten.6, may anybody stay along with her?
The 5 quickest within the semi-final included the highest 4 within the last:
Closing
1 Julian Alfred 10.72 PR, NR
2 Sha’Carri Richardson 10.87
3 Melissa Jefferson 10.92
4 Darrly Neita 10.96
Let the report present that there was heavy rain between and semi and last, which can have impacts instances – until if you’re Alfred!
The winner commented afterwards: “Olympic champion sounds actually good, it has ring to it. Usain Bolt received so many medals. I went again this morning and watched his races. I’m not going to lie, it was all Usain Bolt’s races this morning.”
On who she is considering of after her win:
“I’m considering of God, my dad, who didn’t get to see me. He handed away in 2013. Dad, that is for you. I miss you. I did it for him, I did it for my coach and God.”
An excellent efficiency and a worthy champion.
