Showdown: Felix v Fraser-Pryce over 150m
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Two-time Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will square off against the Olympic 200m champion, American Allyson Felix, in a compromise distance of 150m at the Great City Games in Manchester, England Saturday.
The head to head comes on the heels of great early-season performances by both athletes, who met in the final of both sprints at the Olympics last year.
Fraser-Pryce has a season’s best and world-leading performance of 10.93 seconds in the 100m from the Shanghai Diamond League last weekend while Felix’s season’s best is 11.13 seconds, run at the Jamaica International Invitational (JII) earlier this month.
However, Felix has a slightly faster time over the 200m so far with a 22.36 seconds clocking in Beijing today while Fraser-Pryce ran 22.38 seconds at the JII.
At the Olympics, Fraser-Pryce one up the American with her win in the 100m and second-place finish in the 200m in London, which Felix won after two previous second-place finishes to Veronica-Campbell-Brown.
Felix was fifth in the London 100m final in a personal best time of 10.89 seconds.