Alfred eases into World Indoor semis
Saint Lucia’s sprint queen is taking aim at gold today. Julien Alfred cruised through to the semifinals of the women’s 60m, leading the heats on Saturday morning at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland. The Olympic 100m champion and 60m World Champion from 2024 ran a breezy 7.06 seconds at the Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena. […] The article Alfred eases into World Indoor semis is from St. Lucia Times.
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Saint Lucia’s sprint queen is taking aim at gold today. Julien Alfred cruised through to the semifinals of the women’s 60m, leading the heats on Saturday morning at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland. The Olympic 100m champion and 60m World Champion from 2024 ran a breezy 7.06 seconds at the Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena.
Running from lane 6, Alfred won Heat 4 at 6:05 am, with Canada’s Sade McCreath a distant second in 7.16 seconds. Matching Alfred’s effort was Jamaica’s Brianna Lyston, who pulled ahead of American runner Jacious Sears to take Heat 6. Sears and Alfred share the second-fastest time ever over the distance, 6.94 seconds.
Representing Italy, Zaynab Dosso took silver at last year’s World Indoors and bronze the year before, behind Alfred at the Glasgow Arena, where the two women wore similarly coloured blue kit. Dosso, the only woman aside from Alfred to have gone under seven seconds since 2024, ran 7.07 to win Heat 1.
Also notable was Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain, whose reaction time of 0.134 was the second-fastest among the semifinal qualifiers. Alfred’s 0.165 was only the 18th fastest. Ewa Swoboda represented the home team, the Polish athlete running 7.08 to negotiate Heat 8.
The semifinals will be contested at 3:14 pm Eastern Caribbean Time, with Alfred in Heat 1, lane 5, alongside Sears and Lyston. The final is slated for 4:20 pm.
The article Alfred eases into World Indoor semis is from St. Lucia Times.
