Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce becomes second-quickest woman over 100m
The 34-year-old, who also won world gold at Doha 2019, streaked clear to win a national trials warm-up event in Kingston. Only American legend Florence Griffith-Joyner has run faster. Griffith-Joyner scorched to a world record of 10.49 seconds in 1988 before retiring less than a year later.
Fraser-Pryce's time eclipses the 10.72 seconds run by American Sha'Carri Richardson as the fastest time in the world this year. It is an improvement of 0.07 seconds on her Fraser-Pryce, who took more than a year out of the sport around the birth of her son in 2017, admitted she surprised herself with her time.
"Honestly, no, I wasn't coming out here to run that fast," she said. "Thank God that I finish healthy."There was no pressure - I just wanted to get one more race in before the national trials.
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