Julien Alfred of Workforce Saint Lucia celebrates successful the gold medal in the course of the Ladies’s 100m Closing on day eight of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on Aug. 3, 2024 in Paris, France.
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An exciting showdown between Julien Alfred and Shericka Jackson on the Miramar Invitational in Broward County, Florida, USA, got here right down to a nail-biting battle within the 300m race.
Nevertheless, approaching the top of the race, Alfred held off a late cost from Jackson to assert victory within the girls’s three-quarter-lap race.
Alfred impressively concluded the race with a 36.05-second end, breaking her personal Saint Lucian nationwide document and advancing to the twenty eighth spot on the all-time checklist.
Jackson got here in second when she crossed the road in 36.13, whereas Gbai completed in third place in a time of 36.24. Barbados’ Sada Williams clocked 36.49 for the fourth place.
Alfred, the reigning Olympic 100m gold medallist, beforehand clocked 36.16 seconds indoors in February, however this time, she confronted a harder problem from Jamaican Shericka Jackson, the world’s premier 200m sprinter, who was coming back from an earlier harm.
Jackson began the race within the lead, steadily closing the hole. She pulled degree with Alfred as she shortly reeled in Ivory Coast’s Jessika Gbai by the 50m mark.
However in sheer dedication, Alfred surged forward within the house stretch to seal the win. The Jamaican world dash champion completed simply 0.08s behind her.
After the race, Alfred mentioned, “Going ahead, I’m simply going to maintain working exhausting and belief myself.”
