{"id":816140,"date":"2026-07-22T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/816140\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:28:18","slug":"torrie-lewis-breaks-australian-100m-record-beats-five-time-olympic-champion-elaine-thompson-herah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/816140\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrie Lewis breaks Australian 100m record, beats five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Torrie Lewis has set a new Australian women’s 100 metres record after breaking her own national record at a meet in Slovakia.<\/p>\n

Lewis ran a time of 11.04 seconds, beating her previous record time of 11.08 as she beat out Jamaica’s five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, who finished in second.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old Lewis also competed in and won the 200m event, where she ran a 22.66.<\/p>\n

It is the third separate time Lewis has broken the Australian 100m record, having previously done so as a 19-year-old in 2024 by running an 11.10 before lowering that mark to 11.08 at last year’s World Championships.<\/p>\n

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Lewis beat out Jamaican sprint icon Elaine-Thompson Herah (pictured). (Getty: Al Bello)<\/p>\n

Lewis made her Olympic debut in the 200m event in Paris two years ago and finished in the semifinals after running a then-personal-best time of 22.89. She also competed in the 4x100m event in Paris.<\/p>\n

The women’s 100m record is owned by late American sprint legend Florence Griffith-Joyner, who ran a 10.49 at the US Olympic trials in 1988. Thompson-Herah holds the second-fastest 100m mark of all time at 10.54.<\/p>\n

Griffith-Joyner also holds the world record for the 200m, 21.34, a mark she set at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both records are among the longest-standing across all women’s athletics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The career-best 100m time comes at the perfect time for Lewis, who is poised to compete in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay events at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torrie Lewis has set a new Australian women’s 100 metres record after breaking her own national record at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5654,64,63,391183,85,89784,391184],"class_list":["post-816140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-elaine-thompson-herah","tag-sports","tag-torrie-lewis","tag-womens-100m-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816140","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=816140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}