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Athletics - 24. August 2015.

Fraser-Pryce retains her World Champion Title in Beijing

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"I'm getting tired of 10.7s, I want a 10.6, I just trust in god and work hard and focus on my execution."
"I did my hair in venis myself"

Dafne Schippers won 100m silver at the IAAF World Championships on a sensational day for the Dutch athlete and her nation.

Schippers, the heptathlete turned sprinter supreme, twice broke the national record with stunning performances at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium on Monday.

The power of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was just too much for gold as the Jamaican won in 10.76 but Schippers was immense as she closed in on her.

She was second in 10.81, having first lowered the national record with her 10.83 in the semi-finals, as American Tori Bowie (10.86) took bronze.

“I am so happy,” said Schippers. “It is a national record, I am second in the world and it is just crazy.

“I was a little bit nervous in the semi-finals but after that I thought to myself ‘I am in the final, anything is possible’. My start was good. Wow.”


Twelve months ago Schippers took both sprint titles at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich but a year before that she was on the podium at the world championships in Moscow having won heptathlon bronze.

She has now moved to another level after her emergence in 2014 as a world-class sprinter, as shown by this final where, among others, leading names such Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown (10.91) was fourth and Trinidad and Tobago’s Kelly-Ann Baptiste (11.01) was sixth.

Schippers had a better reaction time than Fraser-Pryce – 0.129 to 0.161 – before the Jamaican began to move ahead.

She has been working on her starts and what an occasion to deliver one of her best.

Even when Fraser-Pryce was soaring away, Schippers was edging nearer and already the prospect of them meeting at next year’s Olympic Games in Rio is a mouthwatering one.

 
















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