Elaine Thompson-Herah rockets towards immortality as track’s sprint queen

The Jamaican’s scorching world-leading 10.54 at the weekend backed up her Olympic gold and, as Jack Rathborn argues, propels her into the all-time great conversation

Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica celebrates winning the 100m race during the Wanda Diamond League Prefontaine Classic (Getty)

It took Elaine Thompson-Herah longer than her race to realise the magnitude of her latest sizzling performance: 10.54.

Confirmation of the second-fastest women’s 100m time in history eventually arrived to send the Jamaican stumbling backwards in disbelief at the shiny new Hayward Field.

The double-double Olympic champion wheeled away in delight as a sheepish Sha’Carri Richardson swiftly exited the stage, snubbing the customary pleasantries among her fellow athletes at the stacked Diamond League Prefontaine Classic in Oregon.