Julien Alfred remains unbeaten this season in her main events, after winning the women’s 100m on Sunday at the BAUHAUS-galan Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
The 24-year-old Olympic champion set a meet record of 10.75 seconds to secure the top spot for the second time in the past three days.
After winning in Oslo on Thursday in 10.89 seconds, Alfred lowered her season’s best in the event. She also obliterated the 10.90 meet record for Stockholm. The Ciceron native remains the next fastest woman in the world for 2025, behind Melissa-Jefferson-Wooden of the US. Alfred is fastest in the world over 200m with a time of 21.88 seconds.
Alfred, Saint Lucia’s first-ever Olympic gold medallist after winning in Paris last year, revealed that she had not been fully confident ahead of Sunday’s run but a conversation with coach Edrick Floreal settled her. She will be making her way back to her training base. In Austin, Texas, before competing at the Prefontaine Classic on July 5.
“After Oslo I had to have a long chat with my coach and he went through everything with me for today´s race,” said Alfred. “He reassured me that I am in great shape because I was doubting myself.
“But I am happy today with how the race went. The turnaround was short but it is nothing new to me, I have done it before. I shall be heading back to Austin for training now before Prefontaine.”
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I am convinced that she is a super talented athlete
Good for her 👏 👏 👏 … and she met her idol: Usain Bolt ❤️
This is the peak of your career. win as much as you can, work as hard as you can, so that, in four or five years’ time, when your career is about to enter on its Twighlight. you can coast through those years, super champion or not, knowing that you had given your best, and that, life was kind in return to you, achieving all that you did……by the way you could have had the gold in the Olympic two hundred as well. The bad lane put you off. I knew it would even before the race started. My immediate reaction was that it was intentionally done by the more powerful countries. And as I thought, it did play on your mind, at the starting of the race, because of the turn, you thought you were far behind, only to realize that you were running pretty well after the turn, but by the time you realized you could have taken the athlete ahead of you, too much of the course had already gone. If there were more meters you would have won. you had the physical leg strength and ability to have been a double gold medal Olympian in the games biggest races……just letting you know that you had that ability. what you do from here on in doesn’t even really matter to me. In my estimation, you have done more for your country than we could have ever repaid you for. enjoy your career, make lots of money for yourself and your family, and if in the process you win alot enjoy that too.