Athletics - Thompson claims Shanghai win with 2017's fastest time


Athletics - IAAF Athletics Diamond League meeting - Women's 100m - Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai, China - 13/5/17 - Elaine Thompson of Jamaica competes. REUTERS/Aly Song

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson set the fastest time in the world this year when she won the women's 100 metres at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on Saturday.

The Jamaican left the rest of a quality field in her wake to finish in a time of 10.78 seconds, almost three tenths of a second clear of American Tori Bowie with Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Ivory Coast in third.

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