New world lead, meet record for Alfred in Arkansas
Olympic champion and 2024 World Indoor winner Julien Alfred set consecutive meet records and posted a world‑leading time on Friday, February 13, at the Tyson Invitational. The 24‑year‑old sprinter topped a strong women’s 60m field at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Competing in Heat 2 of the women’s 60m Championship preliminaries, the […] The article New world lead, meet record for Alfred in Arkansas is from St. Lucia Times.
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Olympic champion and 2024 World Indoor winner Julien Alfred set consecutive meet records and posted a world‑leading time on Friday, February 13, at the Tyson Invitational. The 24‑year‑old sprinter topped a strong women’s 60m field at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Competing in Heat 2 of the women’s 60m Championship preliminaries, the speedster from Ciceron ran 7.01 to take first place. She outpaced Texas-based Jamaican Carleta Bernard, American Olympian McKenzie Long and British athlete Daryll Neita.
The former Texas Longhorn went faster still in the final, going 6.99 seconds. Coincidentally, she was one of the last two women to dip below the seven-second barrier when she won at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow nearly two years ago.
Alfred is the fastest woman in the world over 60m this year, running 7.00 at this same venue last weekend. Her runs of 6.99 and 7.01 now give her the top three times for the season, and she twice overhauled Tiana Madison’s meet record of 7.02, which had stood since 2012.
Jacious Sears was second in the final in 7.03 seconds. Sears, an American, ran 6.98 at this venue in 2023 to set the facility record. She and Alfred share the second-fastest time ever over 60m, 6.94, which they both ran in 2023.
Alfred has now run under seven seconds six times, more than anyone other than world record holder Irina Privalova, with 13.
The article New world lead, meet record for Alfred in Arkansas is from St. Lucia Times.
