New MPM for SAFP in Monaco
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continues to drive the clocks crazy.
The five-time world champion in the 100 m further improved her best performance of the year on the straight line, achieving 10”62 at the Monaco meeting.
The 35-year-old Jamaican beat by four hundredths the clock set four days earlier at the previous stage of the Diamond League in Chorzow. She beat her compatriot Shericka Jackson (10”71) and the Ivorian Marie-Josée Ta Lou (10”72, African record), who both broke their personal best.
The consistency of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is simply exceptional. ‘SAFP’ is the first woman in history to run under 10.70 six times in the same season. She will be to be followed very closely at the next Athletissima, she who set the best time of her career last year at Pontaise (10”60).
Faith Kipyegon narrowly missed the 1500m world record. Double Olympic champion and double world champion in the specialty, the Kéynane cut the line in 3’50”37 to fail 0”30 from the mark established in this same stadium by the Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba. This is the second best time in history.
Lyles in 19”46
On the men’s side, Noah Lyles completed a magnificent 200m at the end of the evening. The American, double reigning world champion on the half-lap, won in 19”46 (9th all-time fastest). He only went faster once in his career, in the final of the recent Eugène Worlds where he had managed 19”31.
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