Paris 2024: Elaine Thompson-Herah to Julien Alfred - Five Fastest Women in 100m at Olympics

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Julien Alfred was the fastest runner in the women's 100m event at the Paris Olympics 2024, but the Saint Lucian, who won her country's first-ever Olympic medal, is not the quickest on the track for the distance at the global sporting event.

Alfred clocked 10.72s to clinch gold in the women's 100m event at the Paris Olympic Games as the final lacked the two of the fastest women on the circuit from Jamaica - Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

While Tokyo 2020 champion Thompson-Herah missed the Games through injury, her compatriot and tw-time gold winner in the event, Fraser-Pryce was forced to miss the semi-final due to injury and some issue with the security officials in Paris.

Saint Lucia's Alfred's only challenge was USA's Sha'Carri Richardson, who settled for silver, having been blown away by her rival's powerful runs in both the semi-final and then the final. As mentioned earlier, Alfred's timing was just fourth quickest in women's 100m in Olympics.

The record for the fastest run in women's 100m event at Olympics was set by Thompson-Herah iin Tokyo 2020 when the Jamaican surpassed USA's Florence Griffith Joyner's timing of 9.62s by clocking 9.61s in the Tokyo Olympic final.

Alfred's timing, however, is the third quickest surpassing the great Fraser-Pryce, who had set her fastest timing three years ago in Tokyo 2020 with 9.73s. The US great as well as the Jamaican duo and the Saint Lucian now make up the top five sprinters in women's 100m at Olympics.

Fastest Women in 100m at Olympics

• 10.61s - Elaine Thompson-Herah (Jamaica) in Tokyo 2020
• 10.62s - Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) in Seoul 1988
• 10.71s - Elaine Thompson (Jamaica) in Rio 2016
• 10.72s - Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia) in Paris 2024
• 10.73s - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica) in Tokyo 2020

Thompson-Herah, who has two of the top three timings in Olympic history, is not the record holder for fastest timings in women's 100m history. That record is held by former US sprinter Griffith Joyner, who clocked 10.49s in 1988. Here is a look at the five fastest women in 100m race:

• 10.49s - Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) in 1988
• 10.54s - Elaine Thompson-Herah (Jamaica) in 2021
• 10.60s - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica) in 2021
• 10.64s - Carmelita Jeter (USA) in 2009
• 10.65s - Marion Jones (USA) in 1998, Shericka Jackson (Jamaica) in 2023, Sha'Carri Richardson (USA) in 2023