Jeter third all-time 10.67

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Sunday, 13 September 2009 Jeter - 10.67 - third fastest of all-time! IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final

Carmelita Jeter collapses in disbelief after becoming the third fastest woman in history (Getty Images)

Thessaloniki, Greece - Carmelita Jeter was arguably the most impressive winner as action concluded on day two at the seventh and final edition of the IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final here in Thessaloniki.

The American champion who at 29 years of age has experienced the strongest season of her career improved on her 10.83 personal best, set when winning the Berlin World Championships semi-final, to a mind blogging 10.67, the third fastest of all time and the fastest 100m clocking in no fewer than 12 years!

Jeter won her second WAF title, after her 2007 win over Allyson Felix in Stuttgart, in superb fashion defeating the two women who had preceded her in the World Championships final last month.

Drawn in lane four with World and Olympic champion Shelly Ann Fraser on her outside, Jeter stormed out of the blocks leaving Fraser, the woman who has a blistering start as her worldwide known trademark in her wake. To see Jeter ahead of Fraser from the start, that was something we certainly didn’t expect.

Jeter picked up from her fantastic start executing a near-to-perfection transition phase which saw her well in the lead as early as 30 metres into the race. Lifting her knees high and working hard on her arms movement, the Osaka World bronze medallist was extremely impressive once she reached her cruising speed at 60 metres carrying her momentum all the way through the finish line and beyond.

She quickly looked to her left where Fraser and World silver medallist Kerron Stewart were neck and neck for a distant second before crossing the line and looking to the clock that read 10.68 – later rounded down by one hundredth.

It took Jeter some time to actually resume her poise as she knelt down in disbelief, got back up and put her hands to her mouth, knelt down again and shed a tear at the realisation of her performance.

“When I saw the clock, I was in shock and in tears,” she revealed. “When I got into the race and the gun went off I didn’t think; I just ran to the line. Everything felt slow and when my coach says that it feels slow it’s actually fast. So when I saw the clock I could not believe it because I felt like I was running 10.9.”

The Los Angeles based athlete who is coached since last November by John Smith at UCLA improved by three tenths in one year; after her bronze medal performance in Berlin she has been undefeated scoring convincing wins in Zurich, Gateshead and Brussels.

Fraser once again prevailed over Stewart 10.89 to 10.90 albeit this time it was for second place that the Jamaicans 4x100m World champions were duelling for.

There will be more to come from Jeter who will compete in Shanghai and Daegu before flying back home on 26 September.

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That’s seriously impressive!

In her interview with the BBC she said that with more work she could maybe get the world record.

I don’t know however; that 10.49 by Flo Jo is one hell of a record!

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With one hell of a tailwind.

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jeter had a slight headwind in this race, -.3 i believe. so, with a +2.0, 10.55 or faster is concievable.

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Absolutely brilliant!

//youtu.be/XGf0tyzGTWU

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John Smith has had some lean seasons since Mo Greene, Ato et al retired. But he’s still The Master… this is a great vindication of his knowledge and his enduring love of the coaching game.

Every photo I’ve posted in “analyse this” of Carmelita shows she is just technically at another level to every other 100m runner out there today, maybe any day. Sensational!

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now John just needs to master the art of peaking. The jamaicans peaked at the right time. Jeter didnt.

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The JA sprinters peaked when they wanted to but at least Jeter knows she can run 10.6. She achieved something that Stephen Francis was trying to get Shelly Ann to do but it did not pan out… This was huge for Carmelita.

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Yes it was huge. I do admit that but do you think she would rather be the world champion? I do

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I totally agree…her technique is so efficient…reminds me of Flo Jos Technique…she looks also to be more muscley this year and John Smith does have his athletes perform BB type workouts in the weightroom

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John knows how to peak but Jeter was injured at the US Trials if you remember. Prior to the trials the HSI group were expecting Jeter to win in Berlin. Now we know why.

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Dropping a time like that is outstanding. The comment was made about how technically beautiful her running in this race looked and I don’t think there can be any disagreement about that. What I am wondering is how much of the improvement since Berlin is confidence/relaxation vs. the physical aspects her preparation, timing since the injury, and neural adaptation to the faster speeds she is running?

There was comment in the following article about how drastic the changes John Smith instituted were…

[i]By Demetris Nellas, Associated Press Writer
THESSALONIKI, Greece — It would take something special to upstage Usain Bolt at the World Athletics Special. Carmelita Jeter provided it.
The 29-year-old American sprinter ran the fastest women’s 100 meters in 11 years, winning in 10.67 seconds and blowing away world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser. It was easily the best performance in an event marked by pedestrian efforts from athletes tired after a long season.
“When I got into the race and the gun went off I didn’t think, I just ran to the line,” Jeter said. “Everything felt slow, and when my coach says that it feels slow, it’s actually fast.”
Her coach, John Smith, said after the race that he was “still in shock” after seeing his athlete become the third fastest woman of all time. Only world-record holder Florence Griffith-Joyner and Marion Jones have had faster times. Griffith-Joyner’s record from 1988 is 10.49, while Jones clocked 10.65 in 1998.
Jeter trailed Fraser at the start but flew past her for a small measure of revenge after losing to the Jamaican at last month’s worlds in Berlin.

Jeter was quick to credit Smith with her success, saying that hooking up with the coach in November last year was “the best decision I ever made.”
However, it hasn’t been a totally smooth transition. Smith, a veteran coach whose many charges include former 100 greats Maurice Greene, Ato Boldon and Torri Edwards, overhauled Jeter’s training regime so drastically that she initially wasn’t sure it would work.
“In the beginning, I felt frustrated,” Jeter said. “He changed everything.”
Smith said she expects Jeter to keep improving and become the dominant women’s sprinter in future championships.
“She had the potential, like Bolt did for the men, to take the 100 to another level, to regular (performances) in the 10.60s, possibly the 10.50s,” Smith said. “But I would really like to see her run the 200.”
Griffith-Joyner’s 21-year-old record has long been considered impregnable, and Jeter wasn’t about to start thinking about breaking it.
“Chasing certain times will only get you hurt,” she said. “Right now, my objective is to return home healthy.”[/i]

How drastic does this board think those changes might have been? It would be nice to catalogue to see where these gains were still available in such a mature athlete. It is rather inspiring.

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Oh yea forgot about that. Well I guess He got her back on track at the right time.

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So… lets open another thread:" things we can learn form Jeter’s 10"67"…AKA…John Smith training is back

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How drastic does this board think those changes might have been?

It would be good to see her previous training regime and also the current one. Then we would be in a position to compare them. If we do not have it, it remains to be a pure speculation.

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Totally agree.

Its not what he did alone, but what he did that is different.

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Any split data reported from that race?

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having been there for the first 4 weeks of “Jets” arrival at hsi and speaking with her the training is light years from what she did before…

A - she learnt how to lift in the gym…she had no idea for a girl that could run 10.83 i was amazed how poor in the gym she was… (i predicted in another thread “about their training” that she would have a huge year)

B - she got super fit , theres no doubting she has always been a great fighter in races, the amount of sessions she was hurting and could not cope with in the first 4 weeks would be hard to count…

Johns sprinters have always been fit and as for his program being back i wasnt really sure it left did it? things just move in cycles

couldnt be happier for Jet right now :smiley:

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As always…all the details you can remember, from warm up procedures, techinical cues…times and distances of those 4 weeks, will be greatly welcomed:)

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Welcome back Nanny.

Guys like John Smith run programs that are forever. It’s his job and his career. So they don’t rebuild so much as re-load. Bang, bang!!
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