Athletics – Diamond League – Ultimate – Zurich – Letzigrund, Zurich, Switzerland – August 28, 2025 Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred celebrates with a trophy after profitable the Girls’s 100m Ultimate.
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Julien Alfred delivered a commanding efficiency to win the ladies’s Diamond League 100-meter title for the second straight 12 months on the Letzigrund Stadium in Switzerland.
The 24-year-old Saint Lucian dash queen and Olympic champion stormed throughout the end line in 10.76 seconds to assert gold and have become simply the fourth lady to win back-to-back Diamond League 100m titles, behind American Carmelita Jeter (2010, 2011) and Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2012, 2013) and Elaine Thompson-Herah (2016 and 2017).
Jamaica’s Tia Clayton grabbed silver at 10.84 seconds and Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith claimed bronze at 10.94 seconds.
With the World Championships in Tokyo proper across the nook, Alfred mentioned she nonetheless believes she will be able to enhance on her efficiency.
“I really feel like there’s extra work to be finished,” she mentioned. “It’s my first race again in 5 weeks, so it’s like one step ahead to me. I’m not desirous about the time. It was about placing up the primary and the second half. Now, I’m engaged on little issues earlier than Tokyo.”
In the meantime, American Noah Lyles pipped Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo within the 200-meter race on the Diamond League remaining to assert gold.
Lyles trailed Tebogo at first however received previous him within the final 100 meters to overtake the Botswanan sprinter to the road by inches.
Lyles, the Olympic 100-meter champion and reigning world champion in each the 100 and 200 meters, clocked 19.74 seconds with Tebogo being simply 0.02 seconds behind.
It was Lyles’ sixth Diamond League title, a report for monitor athletes.
“Six, that’s a giant quantity,” Lyles mentioned. “Shoot, that’s one other report on the record. That’s fairly cool, I’m not going to lie.”
Trinidad & Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott secured a third-place end within the males’s javelin throw with a formidable 84.95m, nearly two metres lower than his season’s better of 86.30m.
This places Walcott prime of the boys’s javelin throw standings with 24 factors, only one level forward of Germany’s Julian Weber, then adopted by Grenada’s Anderson Peters on 19 factors.
Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake did not win back-to-back Diamond League titles, as he completed third within the males’s 100 metres in 9.99 seconds, behind American Christian Coleman (9.97) and South Africa’s Akani Simbine (9.98).
Whereas Jamaica’s Andrenette Knight completed third within the ladies’s 400 metre hurdles in 53.76 seconds, winner Femke Bol set a brand new meet report of 52.18 seconds, and Slovakia’s Emma Zapletalova ran a nationwide report 53.18 seconds for second place.
