Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce avenged her Olympic Games defeat to Jamaican compatriot Elaine Thompson-Herah by winning the 100m at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on Thursday in the third fastest ever time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 34-year-old Olympic champion from 2008 and 2012 clocked 10.60sec, just five days after Thompson-Herah had run the second fastest of 10.54sec at Eugene in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson-Herah, the triple gold medallist from Tokyo thanks to wins in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay, was second Thursday in 10.64sec, the eighth-best time in the event’s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I had a very good feeling and I’m happy to have been able to do that time,” said Fraser-Pryce after her win in front of a packed, unmasked crowd at a chilly Stade Olympique de la Pontaise where the temperature struggled up to 18 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her winning run was aided by a strong but legitimate +1.7 m\/s tailwind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nine-time world championship gold medallist added: “I continue to work well, race after race. I believed in myself and tonight I am leaving with a personal best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I knew that I was capable of it even if the wind this evening was fresh.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both women are agonisingly close to breaking the world record of 10.49sec set by Florence Griffith-Joyner of the United States in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fraser-Pryce and Thompson-Herah will get their next chance to shatter the 33-year-old record at the next Diamond League meet in Paris on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My body is tired after a long season and especially after having broken my own record four times in a month,” said Thompson-Herah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I wasn’t thinking about the world record. I just plan to work hard and finish the season strongly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shericka Jackson was third to complete a Jamaican podium sweep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas came close to improving her world record of 15.67m set at the Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rojas was leading the competition with a wind-aided 15.56m (+3.5 m\/s) on her opening attempt and then added a 15.52m (+0.6) \u2013- further than Inessa Kravets’ old world record of 15.50m \u2013- to set a new Diamond League record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She would go on to win the competition with a 15.11m ‘Final Three’ jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olympic pole vault champion Armand Duplantis endured a disappointing return to action after his Tokyo triumph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Swede managed just 5.62m and failed three times at 5.82m which was the winning height for Christopher Nilsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World champion Sam Kendricks, also with 5.82m, was second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America’s Kendricks missed the Olympics due to a positive Covid-19 test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia’s Timur Morgunov claimed third place with a height of 5.72m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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