Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah, reigning double Olympic champion in the distance, achieved the best world performance of the year in the 100m for her comeback at the Golden Games in Walnut (California) where other reference brands for 2022 were recorded on Saturday.
Thompson-Herah ran her series in 10 sec 89/100e, a time validated with a favorable wind of 1.6 meters per second.
She nevertheless decided not to take the start of the final, Eole having blown even harder afterwards at the Hilmer Lodge Stadium.
Finally it was the American Twanisha Terry who won, in 10.77, an unofficial time, because the wind was 3.3 m per second.
However, she beat her compatriots Aleia Hobbs and Gabby Thomas.
The latter, bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in the 200m, also achieved the fastest time of the season on her favorite distance, winning in 22.02, ahead of Brittany Brown who had won silver at the 2019 Worlds.
A performance also successful for men by Fred Kerley, silver medalist in the 100m in Tokyo, who won in 19.80 (wind of 1.6 m/s), just ahead of another American, Michael Norman (19.83) who has long been his rival in the 400m.
Announced at the start, the 100m world champion Christian Coleman, who is making his return to competition this season after 18 months of suspension for breaches of his anti-doping whereabouts obligations, did not ultimately run this race, which was finished in 3rd place Rai Benjamin (20.01), Olympic silver medalist in the 400m hurdles.
Too carried by the wind for his time (9.83) to be approved, Micah Williams nevertheless won the men's 100m.
Tonea Marshall (12.46) beat Olympic silver medalist Keni Harrison (12.56) in the 100m hurdles.
Only Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, the reigning Olympic champion, ran faster this year.
Finally, Michael Cherry, Olympic champion with the United States in the 4x400m relay in Tokyo, ran the fastest 400m of the year in 44 sec 28/100e.
