
Tags: Athletics, Elaine Thompson Herah, Usatf Bermuda Games
Elaine Thompson-Herah, the fastest woman alive, will be competing in Bermuda next month.
Regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time, the five-time Olympic champion will be heading to the island to compete alongside a host of big names in the USATF Grand Prix on Sunday, April 28.
Thompson-Herah, 31, is only the second sprinter after Usain Bolt to win the sprint double at consecutive Olympics, capturing gold in the 100 and 200 metres at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro and defending both titles in Tokyo.
Winning another gold in the 4x100 relay in Japan means she is only the third person after Bolt and Florence Griffith-Joyner to complete an Olympic triple clean sweep of sprint medals.
Griffith-Joyner is the only woman in history to have run faster than Thompson-Herah in the 100m, with the Jamaican’s best time of 10.54sec just 0.05 outside the world record set by the American in Indianapolis in 1988.
That world record is the fifth longest-standing in track and field but its legitimacy and that of the four oldest, which are all held by Eastern European athletes competing in the 1980s, has been brought into question for years.
Thompson-Herah is the biggest name to have been confirmed as competing in Bermuda next month but she is not the only Olympic medal-winner set to grace the Flora Duffy Stadium with 200 metres bronze medalist Noah Lyles also returning to the island.
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