The organization announced the news on Thursday. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, her runner-up Shericka Jackson and Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah will meet on August 26 for a summit clash in the 100m at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting. The three Jamaicans monopolized the last podium of the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 (Thompson-Herah ahead of Fraser-Pryce and Jackson 3rd) and that of the World Championships in Eugene in July (Fraser-Pryce ahead of Jackson and Thompson-Herah).
This reunion should push the three stars to surpass themselves, enough to shake the world record of the American Florence Griffith-Joyner (10”49 in 1988) if the weather conditions are favorable. At 35, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is indeed in the shape of her life: on Wednesday in Monaco she set her 6th time of the year in less than 10.70, further improving to 10.62 the best performance of the season.
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In 2021, Fraser-Pryce won in Lausanne in 10”60, the 3rd best time in history, ahead of Thompson-Herah (10”64, now the 9th best time in history) and Jackson (10 ”92) following an exceptional race. The organizers of Athletissima also announced the presence of the American world champion in the 400 Michael Norman over 200m once morest the champion of the specialty Noah Lyles, the young nugget Erriyon Knighton (world bronze) and the Liberian Joseph Fahnbulleh (4th at the Worlds ).
The meeting will also welcome the new world record holder in the 100m hurdles, the Nigerian Tobi Amusan, the American Grant Holloway (110m hurdles) or the double Dutch Olympic champion (5,000 and 10,000m) Sifan Hassan over 3,000m.
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