08 August,2017 08:26 AM IST | London | PA Sport
Jamaica's 100 metres party was wrecked by the United States for the second night running as Tori Bowie upstaged Olympic champion Elaine Thompson to land the world title in London
Tori Bowie (left) wins ahead of Elaine Thompson during the 100m final at World Championships in London on Sunday. Pic/AFP
Jamaica's 100 metres party was wrecked by the United States for the second night running as Tori Bowie upstaged Olympic champion Elaine Thompson to land the world title in London.
Twenty-four hours after Justin Gatlin gatecrashed Usain Bolt's farewell, Bowie gained revenge on the athlete who beat her to Olympic gold in Rio last summer.
Bowie, 26, took the tightest of victories in 10.85 seconds, dipping to beat Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast by just 0.01secs. "I had no idea I had won it," she said. Holland's Dafne Schippers took bronze in 10.96secs, with double Olympic champion Thompson, who had looked so dominant through the rounds, back in fifth in 10.98.
As with Bolt, it was a shocking start which cost her. And once again the colourful and sizeable Jamaican contingent in the crowd were silenced.
It is the first time since 2005 that the country has not won either the men's or women's 100m at a global championships. On the night Jessica Ennis-Hill received her gold medal from the 2011 World Championships, denied her at the time by Russian drug cheat Tatyana Chernova, Belgium's Nafissatou Thiam underlined her status as the new queen of multi-eventing.
The 22-year-old, who beat Ennis-Hill into silver at last summer's Olympics in the Briton's final competition before retirement, landed her first world title with a score of 6,784 points. Boasting a lead of 172 points going into the final event, the 800m, Thiam dragged herself round the two laps in 2:21.42 to take gold by 88 from Germany's Carolin Schafer. Holland's Anouk Vetter won bronze.
