Marie-Josee Ta Lou won the Oslo Diamond League 100m with a new season best

The Ivorian sprinter Marie-Josee Ta Lou won the 100m at the Oslo Diamond League in a new tournament record and world best of the season by 10.75 sec (0.9 m/sec). Bahamian Anthonique Strachan finished second with a personal best of 10.92 sec.

World 200m champion from Oregon 2022 and 100m runner-up from the same forum Shericka Jackson (Jamaica) came third with 10.98 sec. With the same result, but with a difference in the thousandths, the fourth place was taken by the world champion at 200 m from Doha 2019 Dina Asher-Smith (Great Britain), and her compatriot Daryll Neita finished fifth.

The time of Marie-Josee Ta Lou is a new world lead, erasing Sha’Carri Richardson’s lead of 10.76s, and also smashed Marion Jones’s long-standing Meeting Record of 10.82s set in 1998.

Gonezie Marie Josée Dominique Ta Lou is an Ivorian sprinter competing in the 100m and 200m. She finished fourth in the 100m and 200m finals at the Rio 2016 Olympics, missing out on a medal in the 100m by seven-thousandths of a second (0.007). She then won silver medals in the 100m and 200m at the 2017 World Championships, the latter in the national record time of 22.08 secs. Her 100m best is 10.72 secs (2022), thus making her the African record holder.