Elaine Thompson-Herah

Womens 4 x 100 metres Relay Final

Womens 100 metres Final

Womens 100 metres Final

Womens 100 metres Final

Womens 100 metres Final at Prefontaine Classic

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Born
1992 (33 years old)
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Manchester, Jamaica

Position
Sprinter

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Black

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Height
1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)

Weight
57 kg (126 lb)

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Jamaica Athletics

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Elaine Thompson-Herah (née Thompson; born 28 June 1992) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a five-time Olympic champion, having won gold in both the 100 and 200 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and again at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

In 2021, she set an Olympic and Jamaican national record of 10.61 seconds in the 100 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics, making her the fastest woman alive and the second-fastest woman in history. She holds the record for the second-fastest 200 metres with a time of 21.53 seconds which she set at the Tokyo Olympics final.

Thompson-Herah began competing internationally in 2013. In 2015 she achieved her first finish under 11 seconds in the 100 metres, and she ran 21.66 seconds in the 200 metres. She was the 2019 Pan American Games champion and a two-time Diamond League winner.

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