Three of the fastest women in history Sha'Carri Richardson, Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith, and Julien Alfred will face off at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League on May 25th.
World's fastest woman Sha'Carri Richardson, Africa's fastest in history Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith, and world 60m champion Julien Alfred are scheduled to face off in the 100m event at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League on May 25th.
The trio highly ranked among the fastest women in history, will have a go at each other for the first time since the final of the world championships in Budapest, where Richardson ran out victorious with a record of 10.65s.
Ta Lou-Smith finished fourth in that race behind the Jamaican duo of Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, while Alfred was fifth.
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With the women's 100m set to be one of the event headliners at the Prefontaine Classic, all ladies will be chasing a famous victory and the maximum bragging rights for a confidence booster ahead of the Paris Olympic Games.