EUGENE, United States — Trayvon Bromell and Elaine Thompson-Herah grabbed 100m Diamond League
victories Saturday in
Eugene, where eight world-leading performances
highlighted the action at Hayward Field.
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America’s Bromell,
the fastest man in the world last year, bounced back from a false start
disqualification in
Birmingham last weekend to win a star-studded men’s 100m in
9.93sec.
Jamaica’s Thompson-Herah,
who won back-to-back Olympic 100m-200m doubles in 2016 and last year, captured
the women’s 100m in 10.79.
Neither was a world
best for 2022, but Thompson-Herah said she was just pleased to hit the line
first and healthy on a rainy day in Eugene at the same venue that will host the
World Championships on July 15–24.
“I’m excited I
crossed the line healthy,” Thompson-Herah said. “I don’t care about the time.
The rain was falling. It was a little cold.
“It shows I’m on a
great path,” added the Jamaican star, who pulled out of the Birmingham Diamond
League meeting with a shoulder injury, testing herself in a lower-level meeting
in Kingston last Saturday instead.
“I’m getting into
shape,” added the Jamaican, who said on Friday that her training had also been
disrupted by a nagging Achilles injury. “I’m getting where I need to be.”
Thompson-Herah made
a smooth start on the damp track and took control at the 50m mark. Rising
US star Sha’Carri Richardson won a close battle for second place ahead of Jamaica’s
Shericka Jackson, both credited with a time of 10.92.
Richardson, 22,
shot to prominence last season at the US Olympic trials with a wind-aided 10.64
in the final. But she missed the
Tokyo Games after a positive test for
marijuana.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
made it a women’s sprint double for Jamaica with a victory in the 200m in
22.41.
Bromell, who
clocked a wind-aided 9.75 in Florida earlier this month, said his race left
plenty of room for improvement as he looks toward the US World Championship
trials in Eugene next month and the Worlds themselves.
“I was happy to
come out with a win, but I felt like there was a lot of technical stuff I
messed up on,” he said. “I’m pretty sure I’m already getting messages from my
coach.”
Compatriot Fred
Kerley, silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics last year, was second in 9.98,
and reigning world champion
Christian Coleman, still working his way back after
an 18-month suspension for violating doping whereabouts rules, completed a US
podium sweep in 10.04.
“It went pretty
well, just considering the elements and where I’m at in the season,” Coleman
said.
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