Will Flo-Jo’s 100m record finally fall?

Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah is aiming to break Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 34-year-old 100m World Record at the 2022 Athletics World Championships


Thompson-Herah profile

2015: Breakthrough year winning 200m silver and 4x100m relay gold at World Championships

2016: Wins both 100m and 200m gold at Rio Olympics

2017-19: Battles Achilles tendon injury

2021: Breaks Griffith-Joyner’s 100m Olympic Record en route to retaining both sprint titles at Tokyo Olympics, before posting 10.54 in Eugene Diamond League meeting – becoming second-fastest woman of all time
         

TOP 10 FASTEST WOMEN’S 100M TIMES
  
Griffith-Joyner (right) – who became global icon in 1988 – and Thompson-Herah appear seven times between them

Griffith-Joyner Indianapolis, 1988	10.49
Thompson-Herah 	Eugene, 2021 		10.54
Fraser-Pryce 	Lausanne, 2021 		10.60
Griffith-Joyner Indianapolis, 1988 	10.61
Thompson-Herah 	Tokyo, 2021 		10.61
Griffith-Joyner Seoul, 1988 		10.62
Fraser-Pryce 	Kingston, 2021 		10.63
Carmelita Jeter Shanghai, 2009 		10.64
Thompson-Herah 	Lausanne, 2021 		10.64
Marion Jones 	Jo’burg, 1998 		10.65
Thompson-Herah 	Zurich, 2021 		10.65
         
11.0secs 10.9 10.8 10.7 10.6 10.5 10.4 


Sources: IOC, IAAF 
Pictures: Getty Images 
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