00:02First athlete out, Jodine Williams has made the semi-final of the last two world championships in outdoors in Tokyo
00:10and indoors in Turun.
00:13Sade McCreeth of Canada is the new national record holder, 10.86. She's a very good starter. She's used that
00:21through the rounds to make this final.
00:23Hattori Lewis won her heats yesterday morning looking good and then just lowered her own Australian national record to 11
00:31seconds.
00:33Amy Hunt took silver over 200 meters in Tokyo last summer at the world championships. Looked good winning her semi
00:39-final, the third semi-final in 11.02.
00:43Second English woman Amani Lantico will go in lane five. She hit the semi-final in Birmingham four years ago,
00:49has gone one better already in making the final round.
00:54She won both of her rounds over this championships as well. Audrey LaDuke, the former national record holder for Canada.
01:02Second in her semi-final behind Amy Hunt. Zoe Hobbs, the Oceanic record holder. Great starter as well. So good
01:11over 60 meters.
01:12She's gone 11 dead this season. She jogs over to lane seven.
01:19Now the final athlete due out is a D&S from Joneel Smith of Jamaica.
01:2510.89 athlete was meant to take lane eight.
01:30Jamaica have this title at the moment Elaine Thompson, Hilla won it in Birmingham from Julian Alfred from Darrell Nita.
01:39England haven't won this title since 1978.
01:42in the women's 100-metre final.
01:43Australia haven't won it since 1974.
01:52Tori Lewis looked very, very good in qualification.
01:58As did Amy Hunt in winning her semifinal.
02:05All to play for here in the women's 100-metre final.
02:09Jodine Williams in one, Shade McCreeth in two,
02:12Tori Lewis in three, Amy Hunt in four,
02:14Marnie Lanserko in five, Audrey Leduc in lane six,
02:18and Zoe Hobbs in lane seven.
02:21Set.
02:24And they're away safely, clean start.
02:26Marnie Lanserko going well out of the blocks,
02:28as is Zoe Hobbs, as expected.
02:30Into the second half of the race now,
02:31barely anything to choose between the athletes.
02:34It's so close on the line. I think it was Zoe Hobbs.
02:3710-92 with the following wins.
02:41Hobbs, a perfect starter.
02:43She's always good out of the blocks.
02:45But that was some run.
02:47She smashed her own lifetime best.
02:5010-92 is the oceanic record.
02:53It was unofficially up on the screen as 10-92,
02:56been taken up to 10-93.
02:58So it is an area record and a win for Zoe Hobbs.
03:03She's been quiet this season.
03:05She's often very busy on the circuit, Zoe Hobbs.
03:08There seems to be a deliberate lull in her racing
03:11in preparation for Glasgow, and it paid off.
03:15And Amy Hunt celebrating a silver medal, officially 10-98.
03:19And Tori Lewis, she was briefly given a 10-99 when she won her semifinal.
03:24She's been given that, again, it could be a third national record
03:27in about three weeks for Tori Lewis and a bronze medal.
03:32That was so, so tight all the way to the last 60.
03:36Zoe Hobbs looked good on the near side,
03:38but it's not till that camera angle pans out.
03:41You can really trust yourself to put into context
03:43what's going on out in those outer lanes with the inner lanes.
03:47But Zoe Hobbs, I wonder if there was a bit of an advantage
03:50of being isolated there.
03:51She could just focus on her own race.
03:56Well, I think you're probably right, Anna,
03:58because you normally expect the winner to come for the middle lanes.
04:00The best athletes in the semifinals are given those central lanes.
04:04Hobbs in lane seven, that was a surprise.
04:06But 10-94 was her national record.
04:10It's now 10-93.
04:11She takes one 100th off it.
04:13And she's been there so near yet so far.
04:16She's been fourth and sixth in World Indoor 60 metres.
04:20But ironically, it was her finish that held her together here tonight
04:23and gave her the goal.
04:25Because I thought it was going to be between Hunt and Lewis
04:28over in the centre lanes.
04:29But Hunt having settled for silver,
04:31and the Kiwis have gold in a sprint,
04:34a global championship sprint race.
04:36When was the last time that happened?
04:38I'm not sure.
04:39Well, it's her...
04:39I don't know.
04:40I would potentially say not ever.
04:43But Zoe Hobbs, she was the first Oceanic woman ever
04:46to go underneath 11 seconds.
04:48She's really been a trailblazer for sprinting for her continent.
04:52And I think it's quite just, really,
04:54that she takes the gold today,
04:55and that Tori Lewis becomes the second-ever Oceanic woman
04:59to go underneath 11 seconds here in the same race.
05:02It's a lovely sort of paying forward of the inspiration
05:06that I'm sure Zoe Hobbs has given Tori Lewis over the last three,
05:09four, five years.
05:10And Amy Hunt, another major championship medal.
05:15Yeah, that was absolutely brilliant, wasn't it, by Zoe Hobbs,
05:18upgrading her fifth in 2022.
05:20And if my reckoning is right, New Zealand have never won this race.
05:25Ever.
05:26But you see, out in lane seven,
05:28that battle between Hunt and Lewis in the middle lanes.
05:32But Hobbs, she got away so far.
05:35She's so powerful out the blocks.
05:37And I actually think she was edging that race the whole way through,
05:40but all eyes were on those centre lanes.
05:42I wonder if those two in the middle there,
05:44the yellow of Lewis and Hunt in the red and white of England,
05:49were even aware of that black vest creeping through on the right-hand side.
05:52She came through so strongly in the latter stages.
05:55She's founded her own nutritional company.
05:57Well, that's just been given a little bit of boost.
05:59People are going,
05:59Hey, what does she have on her cereals in the mornings?
06:02Because it's special.
06:03And you don't associate New Zealand with great sprinters.
06:06You associate them with middle and long distance runners.
06:09John Walker, the great legends.
06:10They've had some big runners in more recent years, of course.
06:14But this lass, from Auckland, coached by James Morton.
06:18What a...
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