OlympicTalk · Jun 5, 2021
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce runs world’s fastest 100m since Florence Griffith Joyner
Two-time Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce clocked the world’s fastest women’s 100m in nearly 33 years on Saturday and re-established herself as the favorite for a third gold in Tokyo.
Fraser-Pryce, the Jamaican who won the 2019 World title coming back from childbirth, clocked 10.63 seconds at a meet in Kingston, according to local reports and a live timing website.
That’s the fourth-best time in history. Only Florence Griffith Joyner went faster — 10.49, 10.61 and 10.62, all in 1988.
Fraser-Pryce bettered the national record of 10.70 that she shared with 2016 Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah.