Lauryn Williams ponders, “11 secs is history, the bar is set at 10 point.”
Nov 10th, 2009
By Enigma, 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.