Fastest women to beat in 2025? How Sha'Carri Richardson, Julien Alfred, and Asher-Smith dominated a key stat last year

Sha'Carri Richardson, Julien Alfred, and Dina Asher-Smith.

Fastest women to beat in 2025? How Sha'Carri Richardson, Julien Alfred, and Asher-Smith dominated a key stat last year

Funmilayo Fameso 16:24 - 11.01.2025

Find out the fastest women in 2024, dominated by Julien Alfred, Sha'Carri Richardson and Dina Asher-Smith.

With the official kick-off of the 2025 season, a key stat has shown how Sha'Carri Richardson, Julien Alfred, and Dina Asher-Smith dominated the sprint last year in terms of clocking the fastest times.

The speed queens were in the Top 10 fastest women list in 2024 in the 100m and 200m events - the only female sprinters to achieve such feat.

Dina Asher-Smith | Credit: Getty

Richardson, topped the 100m stat with her US Olympic trials winning time of 10.71s, thus ended last season as the world leader. Saint Lucia's golden girl Alfred, settled in second with her Paris Olympics gold-medal triumph of 10.72s, while British record holder Asher-Smith's time of 10.88s made her joint eighth alongside Aleia Hobbs and Rosemary Chukwuma.

Top 10 Fastest Women in 2024

In the 200m, Alfred leads the trio with her Paris silver medal-winning time of 21.86s, behind world leader Gabby Thomas' 21.78s and US college standout McKenzie Long's 21.83s.

Julien Alfred won all major titles available as a female sprinter in the 2024 season

Consequently, Richardson's 21.92s ensured a Top 5 position for the fifth-fastest in the world last year, behind ATHLOS winner Brittany Brown's 21.90s, and Asher-Smith maintained eighth with 22.07s.

Alfred, Richardson, and Asher-Smith dominating this stat shows they were the fastest sprinters in 2024 and arguably makes them the athletes to beat this season by surpassing their respective times.

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