Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce: Olympic favourite runs second-fastest women's 100m ever ahead of Tokyo 2020
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ByEurosport
Updated 05/06/2021 at 16:17 GMT
If there were any doubts about the form of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion they are being completely dispelled. This blistering run puts the Jamaican behind only Florence Griffith Joyner in the women's history books. Eurosport is the only place to experience every moment, every athlete, and every medal from Tokyo 2020
Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce celebrates after winning the Women's 100M final during the Diamond League athletics meeting at the Qatar Sports Club stadium in the capital Doha on May 28, 2021
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Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran the second-fastest women's 100m time in history, clocking 10.63 seconds.
Fraser-Pryce, 34, was comprehensively beaten by Olympic rival Dina Asher-Smith at Gateshead a couple of weeks ago, but in her home country in Kingston she set down a real marker ahead of Tokyo 2020.
Her time is behind only Florence Griffith Joyner’s 10.49s set in 1988.
The 2019 world champion also broke the Jamaican national record and holds the quickest time this year.
Fraser-Pryce, the 100m champion at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, will be one of the favourites for gold in Tokyo alongside Asher-Smith and Sha'Carri Richardson.
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