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Two-time Olympic champion, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has become the second-fastest woman in history after running 10.63 seconds in Kingston

6 June 2021

Only American legend Florence Griffith-Joyner has run the 100 metres faster, 10.49 seconds in 1988.

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