Lewis broke her own record with a blistering time of 11.08, which ranked third in her incredibly competitive heat behind Jamaica\u2019s Shericka Jackson and US superstar Sha\u2019Carri Richardson.<\/p>\n
Lewis first broke the 100m record when she blitzed the field in Canberra in January last year, recording a time of 11.10 seconds to beat Melissa Breen\u2019s 11.11-second mark set in 2014.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old, who also competes in the 200m later in the week and potentially the 4x100m relay final on the final day of the event, said she was \u201cvery, very happy\u201d with her performance.<\/p>\n
It was exactly the kind of result Lewis was after having moved overseas to the Netherlands and changed coach to work under the guidance of the highly regarded Laurent Meuwly following last year\u2019s Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m so glad it\u2019s paid off and the fact it\u2019s paid off at Worlds, like the biggest one, I\u2019m really happy,\u201d Lewis added, speaking to Channel Nine after the race.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Lewis even said that she was so confident entering Saturday\u2019s heat that she was expecting to break her record given the times she was recording in training. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know it probably sounds a bit cocky … but my times in training indicated that I could,\u201d she told ABC Sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just needed to come out here and get rid of the nerves and do what I\u2019ve been doing in training.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis was the 10th-fastest qualifier and will run in Sunday\u2019s semi-final, which is scheduled for 9.20pm AEST. <\/p>\n
\u201cI hyped myself so much for this one. Now I\u2019ve got to come back and do it again tomorrow but I\u2019m confident I can,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Jess Hull won her 1500m heat with a time of 4:04.40. Lindell Hall also qualified after finishing fourth in her heat with a time of 4:07.61. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No Australian woman has made the 100m final at a world championships, but Torrie Lewis could be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-140559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}