2023-08-20 21:50:00
Fraser-Pryce, the queen who defies time
His 100m record: Five world titles (2009, 2013, 2015, 2019 and 2022) and two Olympic titles (2008 and 2012)
Son record personnel : 10″60 (2021)
Fifteen years after her first coronation (Olympic gold in Beijing), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce still does not seem ready to hand over. The passage of time does not seem to have any hold on the Jamaican, who last year became the oldest world champion in the 100m, at 35 years old. She even claimed then to be able to go faster than her time of 10.67 signed in Eugene.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is aiming for her 6th world title in the 100m.
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However, a knee injury has thwarted his plans this season. He had to wait until early July, just a month before the start of the Worlds, to make his return to competition. “It’s a new situation for me to start my season so late coming back from injury,” she lamented last month. “I am not yet 100% recovered from my injury I must say”.
A few weeks have nevertheless passed and “Pocket Rocket” has since reassured the athletic world by signing two solid performances in Lucerne (10″82) and Madrid (10″83). Without forcing, she won her series on Sunday, in 11″01. But will she be able to raise, in the semi-finals and then in the final, her level up to her past standards? The mystery hovers. But it will have to be if Fraser- Pryce wants to expand his gold collection, given the competition gathered in Budapest.
Richardson, the impetuous with a troubled past
His record on 100m: First participation in major championships
Son record personnel : 10″71 (2023)
His exuberance attracts all eyes. By her long yellow and red braids and her endless nails. But also by his attitude, bordering on arrogance on the Budapest track this Sunday. Author of the best time in the playoffs (10″92), the American split with a casual wave of the hand when crossing the line. A way of marking her territory, no doubt, which was not necessarily to the taste of our consultant Stéphane Caristan.
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At 23, the Texan has embodied the next generation of US sprinters for a few seasons already. But she is only playing her very first major international competition in Hungary. She had validated her ticket for the Tokyo Olympics? This was finally withdrawn from him for a positive cannabis test, with a small suspension of one month as punishment.
In sporting and personal difficulty last year, this time she failed to qualify for the first Worlds played on American soil, in Eugene. A track that she trod well a year later, on July 6 during the American selections, to win her ticket to Budapest by raising her personal best to 10″71, the 2nd best time of the year.
Is this the end of the setbacks for her? Richardson advances in any case with a gauge of confidence which overflows. She has won nine of the ten 100m races this year and has four of the seven fastest times of the season. “I’m not back, I’m better,” she likes to repeat, as prolific on social networks as she is silent in the media. “I’m ready, mentally, physically, and emotionally. And I’m here to stay,” she said in early July, in one of her very rare statements.
Sha’Carri Richardson dominates the 100m heats at the Budapest Worlds
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Ta Lou, the age of reason?
His record in the 100m: 2nd and 3rd at the Worlds (2017, 2019) and twice 4th at the Olympics (2016 and 2021)
Son record personnel : 10″72 (2022)
The Ivorian is part of the Fraser-Pryce generation and will celebrate her 35th birthday on November 18. Her beginnings were more timid than the Jamaican. But since her 4th place in Rio in 2016, she has settled into the circle of the best sprinters in the world. She seems to get better with time. It has been three seasons in a row that it has fallen below the 10″80 mark: 10″78 in 2021, 10″72 in 2022 in Monaco (African record) and 10″75 on June 15 in Oslo.
In July, the site olympics.com asked her if she was stronger than ever: “Maybe. But this year, it’s different. I’m really relaxed, I tell myself that I have no pressure. My talent is well established. There is still room, a lot of things to improve and I think I’m on the right track.”
His season so far has been virtually flawless. She has won her last eleven races over the distance, counting her streak won on Sunday in 11.08. “I am really chasing gold and I believe I can do it,” she aspires.
Marie-Josée Ta Lou at the Budapest 2023 Worlds.
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Jackson, from lap to straight
His record on 100m: 3rd at the Olympics (2021), 2nd at the Worlds (2022)
Son record personnel : 10″65 (2023)
A former 400m specialist (Olympic bronze in 2016), the Jamaican has gradually turned to speed. A winning moult at the Eugene Worlds last year, where she won her first world title (200m). On the straight too, his progress has been spectacular. She cut more than half a second from her record between 2019 and 2021, taking the Olympic bronze medal in Tokyo (10″76). Jackson grabbed a new place last year, 2nd at the Eugene Worlds, again lowering his reference time (10.73). And given the trajectory she is taking, it would hardly be surprising to see her take the last step.
Shericka Jackson
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Her time of 10.65, achieved during the Jamaican selections on July 8, sounded like a thunderclap. She not only signed the best performance of the year but also the 5th of all time, tied with Marion Jones In Budapest, only one athlete has a better reference than her: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, of course. absent from these Worlds, Elaine Thompson-Herah (10″54), victim of the Jamaican selections, and Florence Griffith-Joyner (10″49), whose world record has just celebrated its 35th birthday.
The meteoric rise of Jackson in any case embodies the exceptional density of the 100m today. Twenty-four athletes have already run this year under 11″. A time that would have been enough to be crowned world champion in 2007 (11″01 for Veronica Campbell) … one before the start of the Fraser-Pryce era.
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