Olympic champion Julien Alfred gained a degree of revenge on world gold medallist Melissa Jefferson-Wooden with a scorching victory in the women's 100m at the Zurich Diamond League meet on Thursday.
In the Silesia Diamond League meet on Sunday, Jefferson-Wooden had come out on top in the sprint pair's first head-to-head over 100m since last year's Tokyo world championships.
This time around, Alfred had an electric start and fired down the track in front of a capacity 25 000-strong crowd at the Swiss city's Letzigrund Stadium.
Julien Alfred gets her revenge on Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 😤💥
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The Olympic Champion runs a 10.70 to set a new St Lucian national record in the Women's 100m 🇱🇨🥇
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The St Lucian clocked a national record of 10.70 seconds, beating American Jefferson-Wooden by just five-thousandths of a second with a savage dip at the line.
A second American, Sha'Carri Richardson, the 2023 world champion, rounded out the podium with 10.97sec ahead of Jamaica's Tina Clayton.
Newly-crowned European champion Amy Hunt finished fifth in 11.04sec.