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- Mujinga Kambundji sprints to a strong 5th place in the 100m final at the World Championships in Eugene.
- In 10.91 seconds, she missed her own Swiss record by just 2 hundredths.
- Jamaica celebrate a treble with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah.
In a superbly occupied final over 100 m, Mujinga Kambundji was more than able to keep up. The Swiss showed an excellent race. With the second fastest reaction time, she catapulted herself to 5th place. In the end, the native of Bern was 10 hundredths off the podium. Her 10.91 seconds marked the end of a progression run from the prelims through the semifinals to the final. At the Swiss Championships in Zurich, she was only 2 hundredths faster with a Swiss record.
As at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Jamaicans took the complete set of medals. However, in a different order. Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah only got the bronze medal behind the outstanding Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson. Fraser-Pryce won gold for the fifth time in the supreme discipline and set a new World Championship record with 10.67 seconds.
Kambundji had to tremble for participation in the final
Kambundji was represented for the first time at a World Championships in a 100m final. Unlike three years ago in Doha, when 5 tiny thousandths of a second had decided against her, this time she was the one who made it into the final field as the last athlete in the semifinals with a narrow lead. At 10.96s, she was a hundredth faster than Britain’s Daryll Neita.
Service for the World Championships in Athletics in Eugene
SRF two, sportlive, July 18, 2022, 1:55 a.m.; czu
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