Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce matched her season’s better of 10.67 seconds to win the 100 metres on the Paris Diamond League assembly on Saturday.
The 35-year-old Jamaican was in a category of her personal after an excellent quick begin to beat Britain’s Daryll Neita by 0.32 and Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou by 0.34.
“It was an excellent race and I am proud of the time,” stated Fraser-Pryce after clocking the twelfth quickest time in historical past.
“It motivates me to go occasion sooner.”
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American Devon Allen was a minimize above the competitors within the 110m hurdles, ending in 13.16. Though exterior his private greatest, Allen was at all times in management on the Charlety stadium a month earlier than the world championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo additionally eased her strategy to victory within the 400m in 50.10 after slowing down within the closing stretch.
The Bahamian stated earlier this month that she wouldn’t try to turn into the primary lady to win three consecutive Olympic titles in a person operating occasion.
Canada’s Olympic champion Andre de Grasse disillusioned with fourth place within the 200m, received by South African Lux Adams in 19.82 within the Diamond League’s penultimate leg earlier than the worlds.
