The world’s fastest woman, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, will make her debut at Bislett during Oslo Bislett Games on 1 July. With the world’s best time this year, 10.63 from Kingston on June 5, Merlene Ottey’s track record of 10.88 from 1991 could soon be history.<\/p>\n
For a full 88 weeks, Fraser-Pryce has been at the top of the World Athletics World Rankings in the 100 meters. Maybe not so strange when you look at her merit list. The 34-year-old has won what can be won in her career but is of course still hungry for a new Olympic triumph in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
If it happens, it will be her third in the 100-meter, after winning the distance in both 2008 and 2012. In Rio five years ago, she finished third. Shelly-Ann also has four World Cup golds at the distance: from 2009, 2013, 2015 and most recently in Doha in 2019. Throughout the long history of athletics, only Florence Griffith-Joyner has run faster (three times) than 10.63, and Shelly-Ann stands with five of the world’s twenty best times at the distance.<\/p>\n
If she wins at Bislett, as she did in Doha on May 28, it will also be her twentieth 100-meter victory in the Diamond League.<\/p>\n
This Thursday night on The World Record Track, she meets, among others, Marie-Josee Ta Lou from the Ivory Coast, who has a personal record of 10.85, and is number three in the world rankings, Jamaican Natasha Morrison with seasonal best and personal record of 10.87 and American Javianne Oliver with ditto 10.96.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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