WATCH: Elaine Thompson Herah Fight Her Way Back to the Top of World Sprinting, Can she do it?
Channel: SPORTS CIRCLE TV
Date: 04/02/2023

WATCH: Elaine Thompson Herah Fight her way back to the top of world sprinting, Can she do it? 
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How Elaine Thompson started track and field, who inspired her and helped to mold her into the super star she is today. 
Thompson-Herah is the first female sprinter in history, and the second sprinter after Usain Bolt, to win the "sprint double" at consecutive Olympics, capturing 100 m and 200 m gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics and again at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. A six-time Olympic medallist, she rose to prominence at the 2015 World Athletics Championships, winning a silver in the 200 m. At the Rio Olympics, she became the first woman since Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 to win 100 m and 200 m gold at the Olympics.

After the Rio Olympics, Thompson-Herah was plagued by an Achilles Tendon injury, which affected her performance at the 2017 World Athletics Championships and the 2019 World Athletics Championships. However, she returned to the top of athletics at the Tokyo Olympics, retaining her 100 m title in a new Olympic record of 10.61 seconds, and her 200 m title in a new personal best and national record of 21.53 s. After winning a third gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay, she became the third sprinter after Griffith-Joyner and Bolt to complete an Olympic sprinting triple.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah recorded her first win of the season in the women’s 60m in 7.15 seconds at the Queen's/Grace Jackson Meet at the National Stadium, while declaring that her aim this year is to win her first World Championship title.

“It’s the same goal even though I reset and rewind, it’s the same goal to try to get a World title, which I don’t have. It’s the same goal to just continue to stay focused and keep working hard to claim that gold in Hungary,” she said.

“I don’t think about what happened last year. I can’t dwell on that. I just move forward and look forward for this new season,” she added.

Thompson-Herah, who is the fastest woman alive over the 100m after clocking a time of 10.45 seconds, has never won a gold medal at the World Championships
Last year in Eugene, Oregon, the Manchester native claimed a bronze medal in a Jamaican one-two-three in the 100m alongside Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce and Sheicka Jackson. She also got a silver in the women’s 4x100m.
Her first World Championship medal was won in the 200m, where she claimed silver in the event in Beijing, China. This year's edition of the Championships will be held in Budapest, Hungary.

Meanwhile, she added that her preparations this season have been going well and that once she remains healthy, it will be a chance to improve her performances.

“Preparation is going good you know. I’m really confident in myself as always. It’s really going good. Once I complete each day, I’m really grateful, I give God thanks…”

“So, I’m just taking it day by day, week by week and month by month. You know each day I try to improve, each month to improve. So, once I’m healthy, I’m good.”

Earlier at the meet, 200m World Champion Shericka Jackson openedher season in the 400m and won her heat in 53.11 seconds.
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