{"id":17330,"date":"2025-08-23T12:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17330"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:04:19","slug":"jefferson-wooden-scorches-to-brussels-diamond-league-100m-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17330","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson-Wooden scorches to Brussels Diamond League 100m win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In-form US sprinter Melissa Jefferson-Wooden fired out a broadside to rivals just three weeks out from the world championships by scorching to victory over 100m at the Friday&#8217;s Diamond League meet in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old became the first woman since 2003 to win the 100-200m double at the US trials earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Her personal best of 10.65 seconds in the 100m made her the joint fifth-fastest woman in history, and is the world lead this year.<\/p>\n<p>Here she recorded 10.76sec for the win in the Belgian capital.<\/p>\n<p>No other sprinter dipped under the 11sec barrier at the King Baudouin Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaican sprint legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had to be happy with fourth in 11.17sec behind current world champion and Olympic silver medallist Sha&#8217;Carri Richardson of the US (11.08) and Britain&#8217;s Daryll Neita (11.15).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-form US sprinter Melissa Jefferson-Wooden fired out a broadside to rivals just three weeks out from the world championships by scorching to victory over 100m at the Friday&#8217;s Diamond League meet in Brussels. The 24-year-old became the first woman since 2003 to win the 100-200m double at the US trials earlier this month. Her personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}