Olympic 100m silver medalist Kishane Thompson has disclosed the key thing he needs to improve on to achieve faster times and potentially break world records in the future.
Olympic 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson has singled out the one main thing he needs to work on to post faster times in the coming seasons.
Kishane Thompson, speaking in an interview with Citius Mag, noted that he believes in his abilities to run faster but he has to execute what he learns in training and put all the small pieces together to fill the puzzle.
The Jamaican champion pointed out that poor execution has cost him a lot in previous races and in most cases, he never gets the job done. The 23-year-old further claimed that with great execution, the world record will come.
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The men’s 100m world record stands at 9.58 seconds and was set by Usain Bolt at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany.
“To go faster or to get faster results, it’s a matter of me executing…you know I’ve been using that phrase for a while now and it’s going to be a phrase I’ll stick to because if I don’t execute, the results won’t come,” Kishane Thompson said.
“If I can’t manoeuvre what I practice, and put it all together, it doesn’t make sense I think about anything like fast times or whatever. Those are the extensions of execution…if I execute, times, medals, records, whatsoever you want to call it, will come,” he added.
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Thompson opened his season at the JAAA Olympic French Foray 1 but failed to finish the race before proceeding to the Jamaican Olympic trials where he claimed top honours in the men’s 100m, maintaining great form from the heats to the final. He clocked a world-leading time of 9.77 seconds and ended the season as the fastest man in the world.
Kishane Thompson then raced at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial, a Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix where he beat Letsile Tebogo and Akani Simbine to second and third places respectively. He then went to the Paris Olympic Games, scooping the silver medal in the men’s 100m race.