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Review of women's 100m heats at Paris 2024 Olympics with all top favourites making it to the semifinals
In an extremely competitive women's 100m heats at Paris 2024 Olympics, Marie Josee Ta Lou-Smith, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Daryll Neita, Sha'Carri Richardson, and Julien Alfred led a host of fire-cracking sub-11s runners.
Topping the list is Africa's fastest woman in history Ta Lou-Smith who floated to an easy, blistering time of 10.87s, thus announcing her readiness to win her first Olympic medal in Paris.
The Ivorian speed icon blazed ahead of her bestie and fierce rival Fraser-Pryce, who also clocked an impressive time of 10.92s, while Germany's Gina Luckenkemper was third in 11.08s.
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Their heat was the fastest of all eight heats, producing two of the three fastest losers to make the semifinals in Belgium's Rani Rosius (11.10s) and Puerto Rico's Glardyma Torres (11.12s).
Competing in heat 3, Great Britain's Neita produced her best performance of the season in an impressive time of 10.92s, shrugging off the challenge from USA's Melissa Jefferson, who also had an impressive 10.96s, and Hungary's Boglarka Takacs was third in a National Record of 11.10s. Czech's Karolina Manasova settled for fourth 11.11s, but it was good enough to make the semifinals.
World's fastest woman Richardson conveniently won heat 1 in a floating time of 10.94s far ahead of Patrizia Van Der Weken in 11.14s and Australia's Bree Masters was third in 11.26s.
Her brilliant performance was followed by St Lucian star Alfred marking her presence by winning heat 2 in 10.96s as New Zealand's Zoe Hobbs picked the right time to clock a Season's Best (SB) of 11.08s for second, while Italian star Zaynab Dosso claimed the last automatic spot in 11.30s.
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11:44 - 02.08.2024
Paris 2024: Sha'Carri Richardson and Julien Alfred dazzle in floating times to make women's 100m semifinals
Sha'Carri Richardson and Julien Alfred dropped bold performances in the women's 100m heats to announce their readiness for Paris 2024 Olympic title.
Other impressive performances were from Audrey Leduc's Canadian Record of 10.95s, Polish star Ewa Swoboda with an SB of 10.99s, as well as Tia Clayton's 11.00s and Dina Asher-Smith's 11.01s.
These jaw-dropping outings by the female sprinters prove the semifinals and finals slated for the evening session on Day 3 will be one of the most competitive in the history of women's sprinting, where Ta Lou-Smith and Fraser-Pryce can bid their farewell on the Olympic 100m stage with hopefully a shining medal.
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