Posted by By Andrew Harry, TrackAlerts.com
KINGSTON: Former World 100m Champion, American Lauryn Williams, believes the days of running 11-point secs to win championships will soon be something of the past.
She said in 2007, Veronica Campbell-Brown ran 11.02 seconds to beat her in a photo-finish for the World Championships crown.
But this year, 11.01, the time it took Williams to cross the finish line, placed her fifth behind Shelly-Ann Fraser’s winning time of 10.73 secs.
It was behind this thought she said: “Sometimes you have to step it up a notch, 11.00 secs is not going to get you anywhere, anymore, people have raised the bar.”
“10 seconds is going to be the regular now,” she continued.
Williams is a silver medalist in the 100m at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and a 4-time medalist at the World Championships – winning the sprint relay gold in 2005 and 2007. She was also the 100m champion in Helsinki 2005 but narrowly lost out to Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown in a photo-finish in Osaka 2007.
Williams, who was born on September 11, 1983 in Rochester, Pennsylvania, first made a name for herself right here in Kingston at the 2002 IAAF World Junior Championships, winning the 100m.
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The irony is the 11’s are all she’s got until she let’s off the weights and correct’s her diet
It weird how she runs good times on 200m but get wear down on the 100m. I suspect its her form that’s mess up.
The hardest working woman in track and field. I think she needs to change coach.
Get john smith he is the man or get glemn mills
I don’t think people really understand how hard it is to shave time off especially when you are already at an elite level. The truth is how fast can these athletes really go without the use of performance enhancing drugs? Sometimes there can be a correction simply by changing coaches, but most of the coaching techinques are nothing more than variations of one coaching style or another. The truth is that most of the elite coaches are doing a lot of the same things. So my point is perhaps Lauryn is running as fast as she can, anyone ever consider that?
True Coach Change is a need. She is a hard working athlete who has the ability to make a big jump.
i tend 2 agree with wells she seems 2b 2 bulky & clean up her diet personally i like lauryn williams & i think shes capable of going under 11 secs