EUGENE, Oregon, CMC- Reigning ladies’s 100m Olympic champion Julien Alfred is able to tackle the world’s greatest on the Prefontaine Traditional this Saturday right here at Hayward Discipline.
The 24-year-old St. Lucian dash sensation will headline a star-studded area in what guarantees to be some of the aggressive races of the season, a vital check forward of September’s World Championships in Tokyo.
Alfred, undefeated in 2025 with three straight wins, faces a formidable problem in opposition to U.S. stars Sha’Carri Richardson and Melissa Jefferson-Picket.
Richardson, the 25-year-old defending world champion, and Jefferson-Picket, 24, who clocked a world-leading 10.73 earlier this month, are each in peak type.
This conflict options three of the quickest ladies in historical past. Richardson’s 10.65 from the 2023 World Championships ties her for fifth all-time, whereas Alfred’s Olympic-winning 10.72 locations her joint-eighth.
Jefferson-Picket’s latest blistering run matched Christine Arron’s long-standing file, additional heating the rivalry.
Richardson boasts ten sub-10.80 performances since 2021, whereas Alfred has three and Jefferson-Picket one. However this season, Alfred has been unstoppable, successful eight of her final 9 100m races, her solely loss in that stretch coming by the hands of Richardson in Zurich final September.
