Athletics: Jamaican duo set pace in women's 100m semis
Reuters
Published Aug 13, 2016 08:50PM ET
Updated Aug 13, 2016 09:00PM ET
Athletics: Jamaican duo set pace in women's 100m semis
By Scott Malone
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson set the pace in the women's Olympic 100 meters semi-finals on Saturday with times of 10.88 seconds.
Fraser-Pryce, the 29-year-old defending Olympic champion who lost a month of the 2016 season due to a toe injury, visibly grimaced as she crossed the line.
Also in the mix were Tori Bowie, a 25-year-old first-time Olympian from the United States, Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago and Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands, who all clocked 10.9 seconds.
Schippers is a second-time Olympian who last year became her country's first female world athletics champion when she won the 200 meters in Beijing.
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