{"id":1493,"date":"2019-05-31T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/2019\/05\/31\/queens-in-the-spotlight-in-the-womens-100-metres\/"},"modified":"2019-05-31T05:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T05:12:00","slug":"queens-in-the-spotlight-in-the-womens-100-metres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/queens-in-the-spotlight-in-the-womens-100-metres\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens in the spotlight in the women\u2019s 100 metres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); \">The Rome crowd awaits a super women\u2019s sprint contest at the<b> Golden Gala Pietro Mennea<\/b>, the fourth leg of the IAAF Diamond League on 6th June. The line-up features a world-class sprint race, which includes three-time European champion and British record holder Dina Asher<b> Smith<\/b> (10.85), 22.18 in the 200m in Stockholm, Jamaican Elaine <b>Thompson, <\/b>who won the double Olympic sprint title in the 100m and in the 200m in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and clocked the fourth fastest time of 10.70 in the 100m, and Ivory Coast\u2019s Marie Jos\u00e9e Ta Lou, double world 100m and 200m silver medallist in London 2017 and also has a personal best of 10.85. The interest of this sprint grows day after day by reading the record of their head-to-head clashes. Thompson has never been beaten in the 100m by Asher Smith and is leading over Ta Lou, although the Ivorian sprinter won the most recent four head-to-head clashes. The star-studded sprint race also features 4&#215;100 Olympic champion English <b>Gardner <\/b>(PB 10.74), two NCAA champions Aleia <b>Hobbs <\/b>(10.85) and Jenna <b>Prandini, <\/b>a US sprinter of Italian origin (10.92) and 2019 US Indoor champion Shania <b>Collins <\/b>(10.98)<b>. <\/b>It\u2019s a fabulous line-up of sprinters, who were able to dip under 11 seconds. Thompson has already won in Rome in 10.87 in 2016 and clinched two Diamond Race titles in the 100m in 2016 and 2017. Ta Lou returns to Rome to bid for a repeat of last year\u2019s win in the 200m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A star-studded women\u2019s 100m race is in the spotlight at the Rome Golden Gala: three-time...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}