
Tags: 100M, Julien Alfred, Stockholm Diamond League
Saint Lucian Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred looked spectacular on her way to victory in the 100m at the Stockholm Diamond League on Sunday.
The 24-year-old sped to 10.75 to win comfortably ahead of training partner Dina Asher-Smith who ran a season’s best 10.93 and Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith whose 11.00 in third was also a season’s best.
Alfred, who also won World Indoor 60m gold in 2024, got out to a bullet start and pulled away from the field before shutting it down with about 20m to go, signaling that she has much more in the tank.
She recently spoke about changes to the structure of her schedule including running more longer races to start the season and that seems to be paying off early.
Speaking to Citius Mag after the race, Alfred put her performance down to simply following her coach Edrick Floreal’s instructions.
“I’m getting better and better and trusting my coach’s plan for me,” she said.
“Yesterday I spoke to my coach and we had a plan coming into this race. He gave me a few instructions and all I had to do was just follow his plans,” she added.
Even more impressive about her performance is that yesterday was just her second 100m of the season.
She opened her 100m season with victory at the Oslo Diamond League last Thursday with a 10.89 effort.
This begs the question; just how fast can she go this season?
She says we’ll have to wait and see.
“I’ll just go ahead and continue training. My coach has a plan for me and what we want to do in September so we just have to go with the flow,” she said.
Alfred also said that her next race will be another Diamond League meet.
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