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Elaine Thompson-Herah
The Sprint Queen at the 2019 Pan American Games
Personal information
NicknameSprint Queen
NationalityJamaican
Born (1992-06-28) June 28, 1992 (age 32)
Manchester, Jamaica
Height1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
SportTrack and Field
Event(s)60 m , 100 m , 200 m
College teamUTech
ClubMVP Track Club
Coached byStephen Francis
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Jamaica
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Beijing 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2015 Beijing 200 m
Diamond League
First place 2016 100 m
First place 2017 100 m
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Portland 60 m
World Relays
Gold medal – first place 2017 Nassau 4×200 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Yokohama 4×200 m relay
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast 4×100 m relay
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima 100 m
CAC Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Morelia 4×100 m relay

Elaine Thompson-Herah (née Thompson; born 28 June 1992) widely known as the Sprint Queen, is a Jamaican Track and Field sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters and 200 meters.

Thompson-Herah is a three-time Olympic champion who became a sprinting phenomenon after winning gold in the 100 meters and 200 meters at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2021, she set an Olympic & National Record of 10.61 seconds in the 100 meters at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, making her the fastest woman alive and respectively the 2nd fastest woman in history. At present, she also ranks as the sixth-fastest woman in the 200-meter.

The now dubbed “Sprint Queen” had undoubtedly established herself as one of the finest female sprinters of all time, second only to Florence Griffith-Joyner. Thompson-Herah began competing internationally in 2013 and made her individual breakthrough in 2015 when she achieved her first mark below 11 seconds in the 100 meters and set her personal best of 21.66 seconds in the 200 meters. Having recorded 43 sub-11-second runs in the 100 meters, including her Tokyo's Jamaican record, she was the 2019 Pan American Games champion and a two-time Diamond League winner.

Early life

Thompson is a native of Banana Ground in Manchester Parish, Jamaica.[1] Running for Christiana High School and later Manchester High School, Thompson was a good but not outstanding scholastic sprinter; her best result at the Jamaican ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships came in 2009, when she placed fourth in the Class Two 100 metres in 12.01 seconds.[2] In 2011, her final year at Manchester High, she was left off the track team for disciplinary reasons.[1][2]

Athletics career

After high school, she was recruited to the University of Technology, Jamaica by Paul Francis, brother of MVP Track Club head coach Stephen Francis. With MVP coaching, Thompson's times started improving steadily.[2][3]

In 2013, she clocked a seasonal best of 11.41 s at the Gibson Replays and placed second behind Carrie Russell at the Jamaican Intercollegiate Championships. At the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Morelia, she won gold in the 4 × 100 m relay, running the first leg on the Jamaican team as it won in 43.58 s.[1][4][5]

In 2014, Thompson won her first intercollegiate title, placed fifth in 11.26 s at the national championships, and had a seasonal best of 11.17 s.[2][4] She represented Jamaica at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, running in the 4 × 100 m relay heats; Jamaica won their heat in 42.44 s, and went on to win gold in the final with Thompson not in the line-up.[4][6]

2015

Thompson made her international breakthrough in 2015.[7] She repeated as Jamaican intercollegiate champion in March and broke 11 seconds for the first time at the UTech Classic on 11 April, running a world-leading 10.92 s.[2][8] She then ran 10.97 s at the Jamaica International Invitational in Kingston, defeating a field that included Blessing Okagbare and Allyson Felix.[7] At the Pre Classic in Eugene, Thompson was narrowly beaten by English Gardner in the B-race as both were timed in 10.84 s; as of 27 July 2015, this was Thompson's personal best in the 100 m and ranked her 30th on the world all-time list.[4][9][10]

Thompson was expected to run the 100 m at the Jamaican National Championships, which doubled as trials for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing; however, her coach Stephen Francis pulled her from that event and instead had her concentrate on the 200 m, in which she had set a personal best of 22.37 s in May.[7][11] The move generated controversy in Jamaica; Francis stated that Thompson was not ready to double and that she had been prepared for the 200 m in which her main weakness, the start, would not play as large a role.[12][13] Thompson won the national 200 m title in 22.51, qualifying for the World Championships.[14]

At the London Grand Prix on 25 July, Thompson won a nonscoring Diamond League 200 m race in 22.10 s, defeating Americans Tori Bowie and Candyce McGrone; the time was her new personal best and broke Merlene Ottey's meeting record from 1991.[15][16][17]

At the Beijing World Championships, Thompson won a silver medal, behind Dafne Schippers of Netherlands. Thompson's time of 21.66 s was faster than the previous championships record but 0.03 s slower than Schippers. Fellow Jamaican Veronica Campbell Brown was third in 21.97 s.[citation needed]

Thompson at the 2016 Rio Olympics

2016

On 1 July, Thompson set her personal best in the 100 m with a time of 10.70 s, winning the event at the Jamaican Championships. She did not advance to the semi-finals in the 200 m running only a 23.34 s.

In the 100 metres final of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Thompson won a gold medal with a time of 10.71 s, ahead of Tori Bowie (10.83), and the 2012 London Olympics winner and fellow country woman Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.86).[citation needed]

In the 200 m final, she won her second gold, clocking 21.78 s; Dafne Schippers placed second in 21.88 and Tori Bowie third in 22.15 s.[18]

She was the first female Jamaican sprinter to win the 100 m and 200 m at one Olympic Games and the seventh overall. She also ran in the national 4x100 m relay team which placed second, thus leaving Rio de Janeiro with three medals.

2017–19

In 2017, Thompson was in relay team which won a gold medal in 4x200 m at the World Relays, setting a competition and national record with a time of 1:29.04.

She competed in the 100 m at the 2017 London World Championships, placing 5th with 10.98 s.

At the 2019 World Championships in Doha, she finished 4th in the 100 m running 10.93 s. Thompson achieved 22.61 s in the 200 m heats qualifying for the semi-finals in which she did not start due to Achilles tendon injury.[19]

2020–present

In 2020, Thompson-Herah ran seven 100 m races clocking five sub-11 s times, with a season best of 10.85 s (10.73 with illegal wind). She won two Diamond League meets, which were staged in 2020 as one-off events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 200 m, her season best was 22.19 s.

In June 2021, at the Jamaican Championships, she placed third in her two signature events with 10.84 and 22.02 s respectively, qualifying in both for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. On 6 July, she achieved 10.71 s in the 100 m, her fastest time since 2017 and 0.01 s off her PB, to defeat Fraser-Pryce’s 10.82 s and win the Continental Tour's Székesfehérvár Memorial in Hungary, setting a meet record. Marie-Josée Ta Lou was third in 10.86 s.[20]

At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Thompson-Herah placed first in the women's 100 m final, winning the gold medal as fellow Jamaican athletes Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson received the silver and bronze medals, respectively. She achieved the second fastest time in history, with an Olympic record of 10.61 seconds, breaking Florence Griffith-Joyner's Olympic record of 10.62 s set in 1988; which makes her the fastest woman alive.[21]

Competing in the 200 m, she first equalled her PB of 21.66 s in the semi-finals.

Personal life

Thompson is married to former athlete and coach Derron Herah.[22]

Achievements

Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[23]

Personal bests

Event Time (s) Wind Venue Date Notes
60 metres outdoor 7.02 +1.7 m/s Kingston, Jamaica 28 January 2017
100 metres 10.61 -0.6 m/s Tokyo, Japan 31 July 2021 WL OR NR 2nd all-time[24]
200 metres 21.66 +0.2 m/s Beijing, China 28 August 2015 6th all-time[24]
4×100 m relay 41.07 Beijing, China 29 August 2015 WL NR
4×200 m relay 1:29.04 Nassau, Bahamas 22 April 2017 NR
60 metres indoor 6.98 Birmingham, United Kingdom 18 February 2017 WL[25]

Progression

As of July 2021, Thompson-Herah has achieved 43 clockings below 11 seconds in the 100 metres.[26]
A small fraction of data.[27]

International competitions

Thompson (center) at the 2016 Rio Olympics
Representing  Jamaica
Year Competition Venue Position Event Time Notes
2013 2013 CAC Championships Morelia, Mexico 1st 4x100 m 43.58
2014 Commonwealth Games Glasgow, United Kingdom 1st 4x100 m 42.44 GR [n 1]
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 2nd 200 m 21.66 (+0.2 m/s) PB
1st 4×100 m 41.07 WL CR NR
2016 World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 3rd 60 m 7.06
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1st 100 m 10.71 (+0.5 m/s) [n 2]
1st 200 m 21.78 (+0.5 m/s) WL [n 2]
2nd 4×100 m 41.36 SB
2017 World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 1st 4×200 m 1:29.04 CR NR
World Championships London, United Kingdom 5th 100 m 10.98 (+0.1 m/s)
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 4th 60 m 7.08
Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 4th 200 m 22.30 (+0.9 m/s) SB
2nd 4×100 m 42.52
2019 World Relays Yokohama, Japan 3rd 4×200 m 1:33.21
Pan American Games Lima, Peru 1st 100 m 11.18 (-0.6 m/s)
World Championships Doha, Qatar 4th 100 m 10.93 (+0.1 m/s)
7th (heats) 200 m 22.61 (+0.7 m/s) Q [n 3]
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 1st 100 m 10.61 (-0.6 m/s) WL OR NR [n 4]

Circuit wins

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Time from the heats; Thompson was replaced in the final
  2. ^ a b Thompson became the first woman to win a gold medal in both the 100 m and 200 m at the same Olympics (Rio 2016) since Florence Griffith Joyner accomplished the feat at the 1988 Seoul Olympics[28]
  3. ^ Qualified for the semi-finals, but did not start (Achilles injury)[19]
  4. ^ 2nd fastest result of all time in women's 100 m[24]

References

  1. ^ a b c Foster, Laurie (23 June 2015). "Look Out For Elaine Thompson". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e Walker, Howard (20 May 2015). "Sensational Elaine Thompson keeps rising and rising". The Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  3. ^ Fairman, Shayne (24 April 2015). "MVP athletes among world's best - James". The Jamaica Star. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d Elaine Thompson-Herah at Tilastopaja (registration required)
  5. ^ http://en.omriyadat.com/american-athletics/elaine-thompson-diamond-league-athletics
  6. ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Elaine Thompson Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  7. ^ a b c Walker, Howard (27 June 2015). "MVP's masterstroke?". The Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  8. ^ Walker, Howard (12 April 2015). "UTech's Thompson blazes 10.92sec for 100m to outshine Bolt, Fraser-Pryce at UTech Classic". The Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  9. ^ Sully, Kevin (31 May 2015). "Eugene: Barshim soars, sprinters fly". IAAF. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  10. ^ Elaine Thompson Wins Women's 100m | Brussels Diamond league. Retrieved on 2016-09-10.
  11. ^ Walker, Howard (25 June 2015). "Elaine Thompson withdraws from 100m at National Senior Champs". The Jamaica Observer. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  12. ^ Lowe, Andre (27 June 2015). "National Trials: Francis defends decision to run Thompson in 200m". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  13. ^ Higgins, Orville (3 July 2015). "Lay off Stephen Francis". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  14. ^ Lowe, Andre (29 June 2015). "Birthday win for Thompson". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  15. ^ "Londres: La Jamaïcaine Elaine Thompson domine le 200m". L'Équipe (in French). 25 July 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  16. ^ http://en.omriyadat.com/american-athletics/elaine-thompson-jamaica-sprint-diamond-league
  17. ^ Brown, Matthew (25 July 2015). "National 100m records for Schippers and Asher-Smith in London – IAAF Diamond League". IAAF. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  18. ^ Boylan-Pett, Liam (17 August 2016). "Rio 2016: Elaine Thompson wins gold medal in women's 200m run". SB Nation. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  19. ^ a b Watta, Evelyn (2020-09-15). "Exclusive! Elaine Thompson-Herah: "Disappointment makes you better and stronger"". Olympics.com. IOC. Retrieved 2021-07-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ Smythe, Steve (2021-07-12). "Elaine Thompson-Herah looks sharp for Tokyo - weekly round-up". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 2021-07-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ "Jamaica dominates women's 100 meters as Elaine Thompson-Herah breaks Flo-Jo's Olympic record". www.cbsnews.com.
  22. ^ "Head over heels". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  23. ^ "Elaine THOMPSON-HERAH – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  24. ^ a b c "All time Top lists – 100 m Women – Senior Outdoor | until 2021-08-01". World Athletics. Retrieved 2021-08-01. Change filters for other event / age / territorial / time range{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  25. ^ "Thompson Shines Indoor". The Gleaner. 18 February 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  26. ^ "All-time women's best 100m". alltime-athletics.com. Retrieved 2021-08-01. Inconsistent data across alltime-athletics.com / tilastopaja.eu / World Athletics databases. Added: 10.78 legal mark from 2021-05-02 in Clermont, FL{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. ^ "Elaine Thompson-Herah – Profile". tilastopaja.eu. Retrieved 2021-07-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  28. ^ Pantorno, Joe (17 August 2016). "Olympic Track and Field 2016: Women's 200M Medal Winners, Times and Results". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  29. ^ "Diamond Race Winners 2016: Brussels (BEL) 8-9 September 2016" (PDF). Diamond League. 2016-09-09. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-08-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  30. ^ "Diamond League Champions 2017: Brussels (BEL) 31 August - 1 September 2017" (PDF). Diamond League. 2017-09-01. p. 3.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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