2019 World Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres

While they were both introduced in minor roles in 2007, Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser exploded into international stature by winning the 2009 World Championships in the 100 meters for men and women respectively. They brought Jamaican sprinting to the forefront by winning two straight Olympics. Bolt added a third in 2016 capping his spectacular career, but showed fallibility at the 2017 Championships before retiring. Now married, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had returned from maternity leave in 2017.

Here, against the Olympic Champion (Elaine Thompson) and the defending champion (Tori Bowie), Fraser-Pryce dominated the heats and the semi-finals. In the final, she took the lead on the first step and pulled away to a dominating victory in a world-leading time of 10.71. While Marie-Josée Ta Lou was the next fastest out of the blocks, Dina Asher-Smith closed quickly to overtake Ta Lou for a clear silver medal, leaving the defending silver medalist with the bronze.

For 32-year-old Fraser-Pryce, it was only .01 off of her personal best and Marion Jones' Championship record, and one of the fastest times in history. Asher-Smith's 10.83 was the British national record.

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	10.49	Florence Griffith-Joyner	USA	16 Jul 1988	Indianapolis, United States
Championship	10.70	Marion Jones	USA	28 Aug 1999	Seville, Spain
World leading	10.73	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	JAM	21 Jun 2019	Kingston, Jamaica
		Elaine Thompson	JAM	21 Jun 2019	Kingston, Jamaica
African	10.78	Murielle Ahouré	CIV	11 Jun 2016	Montverde, United States
Asian	10.79	Li Xuemei	CHN	18 Oct 1997	Shanghai, China
NACAC	10.49	Florence Griffith-Joyner	USA	16 Jul 1988	Indianapolis, United States
South American	10.91	Rosângela Santos	BRA	6 Aug 2017	London, Great Britain
European	10.73	Christine Arron	FRA	19 Aug 1998	Budapest, Hungary
Oceanian	11.11	Melissa Breen	AUS	9 Feb 2014	Canberra, Australia

The following records were set at the competition:

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
Nepalese	12.72	Sarswati Chaudhary	NEP	28 Sep 2019
World Leading	10.71	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	JAM	29 Sep 2019
British	10.83	Dina Asher-Smith	GBR

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:[3]