Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce underlined her status as Queen of the Sprints with an unprecedented third world championship 100 metres title at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing on Monday.
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Fraser-Pryce, who followed Usain Bolt’s victory on Sunday night, was never challenged for the title and powered her way to 10.76 seconds and a third world championship gold medal.
Fraser-Pryce flew out of the blocks and was so confident that she looked up at the big screen before raising her arm aloft as she crossed the line.
Behind her, former heptathlete Dafne Schippers set a Dutch record for silver in 10.81, edging Tori Bowie of the United States by. It’s insane. Wow. Three years before I was third in the heptathlon, now I’ve come into the sprint and I’ve got a medal.
Prodigious American talent Shamier Little endured a tricky opening heat in the women’s 400m hurdles, though, with the world junior champion just slipping through to the semi-finals in fourth after losing her stride on the home stretch.
“It felt good to get the first one under me and just keep moving on”, Felix said.
I’m getting exhausted of 10.7. “I had many thoughts in my head during the race but I told myself I want to win no matter how hard it is”.
She added that the stellar achievements of the world champion represent a clear reminder of the outcome and benefit of hard work, discipline, dedication, ambition, faith and focus.
Now, she is an extremely talented sprinter with a silver medal from the 100 meters, and with her favored 200 still to come.
33 year old Kemboi unleashed a devastating sub 57-second last-lap burst on his way to the steeplechase title he first won in 2009.
McDonald clocked 44.86 seconds to finish sixth in his race and Peter Matthews finished eighth in his semi-finals race in a time of 45.42 seconds.
“‘Sometimes it all comes together for you, and on other days like today (Monday August 24, 2015), it doesnt”, wrote the African record holder in the event at 10.79 seconds on her facebook wall.
Three failures at 5.90m from Lavillenie – who eventually shared bronze on 5.80m with Poland’s Piotr Lisek and Pawel Wojciechowsk – allowed Canada’s 21-year-old Pan American champion Shawnacy Barber – red-haired, but naturally so – to claim a breakthrough gold with 5.90m as Germany’s defending champion Raphael Holzdeppe took silver on countback.
Fraser-Price, 28, has two 100m Olympic gold medals to her name, which includes the Beijing Games in 2008 and the London Olympics in 2012, and nine World Championship gold medals.
“I’ve won four consecutive world titles and I’m very happy about it”.
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Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen defended her triple-jump title, beating Ukraine-born Hanna Minenko – who since 2013 has competed for Israel, the homeland of her husband.
