Kishane Thompson runs historic 100m time; Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce makes 9th world team

Kishane Thompson led the fastest 100m in the world in a decade, becoming the sixth fastest man in history, while Tina Clayton won her first senior Jamaican title and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made her ninth and final of the world championship.

Thompson, lowered by Noah Lyles for 2024 Olympic 100m Gold five thousandths of a second (9.784 to 9.789), run 9.75 seconds at the Jamaican championships in Kingston on Friday evening. He had a meter / second back wind.

It is the fastest time in the world since 2015 when the American Justin Gatlin ran 9.74, 9.75 and 9.75 in two months.

Thompson improved his personal record by two hundredths to become the sixth fastest man in history behind Usain Bolt (World Record 9.58), Yohan Blake (9.69), Tyson Gay (9.69), Asafa Powell (9.72) and Gatlin (9.74).

Thompson, 23, is the third man to run 9.75 or faster after his Jamaican colleagues Bolt and Blake.

“I am so confident; I don’t think if I even broke the world record, that would surprise me, honestly,” said Thompson, adding that he could have performed his race better. “I’m just going to put that there.”

Thompson goes to the world championships in Tokyo in September, are looking to break the American sequence with four 100m consecutive men since Bolt won his third and last title in 2015.

Noah Lyles, the reigning Olympic and world champion, ran for the last time on April 19 and has since treated a minor ankle injury. Lyles has won a Bye in the world as a reigning world champion, so he does not need to be in good shape before September.

Also Friday. Clayton directed personal records in the semi-finals on Friday (10.93) and final (10.81) for his first senior Jamaican title. No Jamaican woman has never run so quickly before she was 21 years old.

“I was not expecting this time,” said Clayton, U20 world champion in 2021 and 2022. “Depending on how I was going to training, I knew I would be pb, but not so fast.”

The fastest women in the world this year are the American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden (10.73), the Olympic bronze medalist, and Julien Alfred (10.75) from Sainte-Lucie, Olympic gold medalist.

Clayton was followed in the final of Friday by the 200m world champion Shericka Jackson (10.88) then Fraser-Pryce (10.91) in what she said was her last race in Jamaica before retiring later this year.

Fraser-Pryce, a 38-year-old man with a record of seven titles combined with Olympics and the world of the world, should participate in a ninth world championship. Jamaica will have at least three places 100m in the worlds, and it is automatically in the 4x100m relay pool.

“I am grateful for this fighting spirit,” said Fraser -Pryce, noting that his first worlds were also in Japan – as a preliminary round relay runner in 2007.

Fraser-Pryce will make a timid record appearances of 10 worlds for a sprinter shared by American Allyson Felix and Kim Collins de Saint Kitts and Nevis.

She can become the oldest woman to win a world championship medal in any sprint event, including the relays, and the oldest woman or the male sprinter to win an individual world medal.

The current oldest sprint medalist is Chandra SturPrup des Bahamas, which won 4x100m in silver in 2009 at 37 years old. Merlene Ottey de la Jamaica was a younger 37 when she won 200m from bronze in 1997.

The 10 gold medals of the world championships in Fraser-Pryce career are third in history behind Felix (14) and Usain Bolt (11). His 16 world championship medals in career of all colors are second behind Felix (20).

Fraser-Pryce originally planned to retire after the 2024 Olympic season.

But at the Paris Games, she withdrew before the semi-finals of the 100m. A reason for its withdrawal has not been announced.

In January 2025, Fraser-Pryce said she would come back for one more season. In an article on social networks in April, she said that she had unfinished affairs.

The American team of the world championships will be widely determined at the outdoor athletics championships in the United States from July 31 to August. 3 in Eugene, Oregon.

The 100m Olympic silver medalist, Sha’Carri Richardson, obtained a Bye in the American team as a defending world champion of 2023.

Faith Kipyegon got closer to four minutes for a mile than any woman in history.