{"id":1992,"date":"2019-06-21T07:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/eugene-stanford-richardson-leads-fast-prefontaine-classic-womens-100\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T07:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:53:06","slug":"eugene-stanford-richardson-leads-fast-prefontaine-classic-womens-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/eugene-stanford-richardson-leads-fast-prefontaine-classic-womens-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene\/Stanford: Richardson Leads Fast Prefontaine Classic Women’s 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

The stellar field also includes the world\u2019s most decorated women\u2019s sprinter, last year\u2019s No. 1 in the world as ranked by Track & Field News <\/i>as well as the reigning IAAF Diamond League winner. There\u2019s even a young American who hasn\u2019t lost to anyone from the U.S. in almost two years.<\/p>\n

Sha\u2019Carri Richardson<\/b>, 19, scorched the NCAA Championships two weeks ago in 10.75 breaking the world U20 (Junior) record set 42 years earlier. The Dallas native later declared her intent to turn professional, leaving LSU after becoming the first female freshman sprinter to win the national title after an undefeated season among collegians.<\/p>\n

Richardson\u2019s 10.75 rates her tied for No. 9 all-time on the world list and No. 5 American, just ahead of legend Evelyn Ashford. Later that afternoon at the NCAA in Austin, Richardson clocked 22.17, breaking the ratified world U20 record set by Allyson Felix in 2004, when Richardson was just 4 years old.<\/p>\n

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce<\/b>, 32, made Olympic history at Rio in 2016, earning a 100-meter bronze after two straight gold medals. She owns the most combined Olympic and World Championships women\u2019s 100-meter golds with five. She took the 2017 season off with maternity leave and won her only Diamond League race last year in 10.98. She has run just one serious 100 this year, and her 10.88 is the season\u2019s second fastest.<\/p>\n

Fraser-Pryce owns three of her four Diamond League titles in the 100 and has the most wind-legal sub-10.80 times this century with 11. She has four No. 1 world rankings by T&FN<\/i>\u2013 the most this century and equal to Jamaican legend Merlene Ottey.<\/p>\n

A pair of sprinters from Cote d\u2019Ivoire split last year\u2019s T&FN <\/i>world No. 1 ranking and the Diamond League crown.<\/p>\n

Marie-Jos\u00e9eTa Lou<\/b>, 30, won last year\u2019s Pre Classic 100 en route to a season rated best in the world by T&FN<\/i>. Her 10.85 was a co-world leading fastest as she claimed the Doha Diamond League race, and this year she has the world\u2019s fastest 60 indoors at 7.02. Ta Lou swept silvers at the London Worlds in the 100 and 200, plus last year in England at the World Indoor 60.<\/p>\n

Murielle  Ahour\u00e9<\/b>, 31, claimed last year\u2019s Diamond League 100 crown \u2013 the first by an African man or woman in the short sprints. She owns the African record at 10.78 and has been world ranked by T&FN <\/i>every year since 2012. Ahour\u00e9 was runner-up the last two years at the Pre Classic and won last year\u2019s World Indoor 60 gold. She is a former NCAA indoor 60 champ while at Miami.<\/p>\n

English Gardner<\/b>, 27, has won two Pre Classic 100s, and her PR 10.74 to win the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials is that meet\u2019s fastest besides Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 and makes her the fourth-fastest American ever. She has missed a good amount of the last two years but claimed the Millrose Games indoor 60 this year in a PR 7.10.<\/p>\n

Aleia Hobbs<\/b>, 23, is the reigningU.S. champ and last year became the first NCAA\/USA double winner in this event since Gardner in 2013. Hobbs is one of a record eight NCAA 100 champions to come from LSU, and she owns the only victory this year over Richardson. Hobbs \u2013 the world\u2019s top-ranked American by T&FN <\/i>last year at No. 5 \u2013 has not lost a 100 to anyone from the U.S. in two years.<\/p>\n

After Richardson, youngest in the field is Kayla White<\/b>, 22. She was runner-up in the recent NCAA Championships in a PR 10.95, just her second sub-11 mark. Until this year winter, she was known more as a hurdler (12.92 in the 100 hurdles last year) than an aspiring sprinter, but that changed in the March NCAA Indoor Championships as a senior for North Carolina A&T. She was runner-up in the 60 hurdles (PR 7.92) before winning the 200 in a world-leading 22.66. She hasn\u2019t run a hurdles race since.<\/p>\n

At 10.95, Mujinga Kambundji<\/b>, 27, is Switzerland\u2019s only sprinter to break 11 seconds. She also owns her national record in the 60 (7.02) and was world-ranked in last year\u2019s top 10 by T&FN<\/i> in both the 100 and 200, the first Swiss in either event.<\/p>\n

Michelle-Lee Ahye<\/b>, 27, won last year\u2019s Commonwealth Games 100 and has made every Olympic or Worlds final since 2014. She <\/b>owns Trinidad\u2019s national records in the 100 (10.82), 200 (22.25) and 60 (7.09). She ran the backstretch leg on Trinidad\u2019s 4×100 bronze medal team at the World Championships.
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Women\u2019s 100 Meters<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Personal Best<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10.70<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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English Gardner (USA)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10.74<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sha\u2019Carri Richardson<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10.75<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Murielle Ahour\u00e9 (Cote d\u2019Ivoire)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10.78<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Michelle-Lee Ahye (Trinidad & Tobago)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10.82<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Aleia Hobbs (USA)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10.85<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Marie-Jose\u00e9 Ta Lou (Cote d\u2019Ivoire)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10.85<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Mujinga Kambundji (Switzerland)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10.95<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Kayla White (USA)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10.95<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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———————-<\/p>\n

Preclassic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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