Torrie Lewis has set a new Australian women’s 100 metres record after breaking her own national record at a meet in Slovakia.
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.
The 21-year-old Lewis also competed in and won the 200m event, where she ran a 22.66.
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.
Lewis beat out Jamaican sprint icon Elaine-Thompson Herah (pictured). (Getty: Al Bello)
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.
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.
Griffith-Joyner also holds the world record for the 200m, 21.34, a mark she set at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.
Both records are among the longest-standing across all women’s athletics.
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.
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