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The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the 100-metre dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events
Start of the men's 100 metres final at the 2012 Olympic Games in London
Start (green) and end (red) points of a 100 metre race, marked on a running track
Male sprinters await the starter's instructions
Usain Bolt breaking the world and Olympic records at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Elaine Thompson-Herah
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Elaine Sandra-Lee Thompson-Herah, née Thompson, is a Jamaican sprinter who competes in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres. Regarded as one of the greatest female sprinters of all time, she is a
100 metres
…and after this race as well as the parallel long jump runway at the time of the Griffith Joyner performance. The next best wind legal performance is Elaine Thompson-Herah's 10.54 second clocking in 2021 at the Prefontaine Classic. Griffith Joyner's next best legal performance of 10.61 from 1988, would have her third on…
Thompson-Herah at the 2019 Pan American Games
Thompson on the podium at the 2016 World Indoor Championships, alongside Dafne Schippers and Barbara Pierre
Thompson (L) competing in the 200 m heats at the 2016 Rio Olympics alongside Gina Lückenkemper and Marie-Josée Ta Lou
Thompson at the Brussels Memorial Van Damme in 2017