(Jamaica Gleaner) – Jamaica continued its dominance in the women’s 100m as Elaine Thompson secured the country’s third consecutive 100m Olympic gold medal, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce taking the bronze.
Thompson, competing at her maiden Olympics, took the victory in 10.71 seconds to add Olympics 100m gold to her 2015 World Champion-ships 200m bronze.
Fraser-Pryce was seeking to become the first athlete to win gold in three consecutive 100m Olympic finals, but appeared to have been hampered by a season-long foot injury as she did not get off to her usual quick start to finish third in a season’s best of 10.86.
The two medals took Jamaica’s Olympics tally to 69.
The silver medal was capture by Tori Bowie of the USA in 10.83 while Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands, who was expected to challenge for a medal finished fifth in 10.90 seconds.
Jamaica’s other representative in the final, Christania Williams, was eighth in 11.80.
