{"id":386971,"date":"2024-04-21T23:44:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=386971"},"modified":"2024-04-22T01:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T01:03:36","slug":"aussie-teen-upsets-world-champ-in-stunning-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=386971","title":{"rendered":"Aussie teen upsets world champ in stunning victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian 100m record holder Torrie Lewis has made a huge statement on the international stage just three months out from Paris 2024<\/a>, with a breakthrough win in the 200 metres at the season-opening Diamond League event in Xiamen, China.<\/p>\n

Lewis, running in the outside lane, flew home to win in 22.96 seconds.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old edged \ufeffTokyo 2020 \ufeffgold medallist and reigning 100m world champion Sha'Carri Richardson by just 0.03 seconds in a photo finish.<\/p>\n

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American Tamara Clark (23.01) took third place.<\/p>\n

Making her individual Diamond League debut after a successful domestic campaign, which included setting the new national 100-metre record in January<\/a>, Lewis led the undercard.<\/p>\n

Lewis broke the national 100m record in Canberra in January,<\/p>\n

Speaking after her Diamond League win, Lewis could barely believe she could win in such a high-calibre field.<\/p>\n

"No, not at all. It was so surreal beating Sha'Carri. I didn't even notice I beat them until I saw the replay and I was like, 'Holy crap'. So surreal." she said.<\/p>\n

"My goal was to just hold on as long as I could. I was in lane nine, so I knew they would all be in front of me by 50 or 60 metres, but I just wanted to do as well as I could.<\/p>\n

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"I've come here straight from the nationals, knowing this was my opponents' season-opener, so I knew I had an edge coming in, but I just wasn't entirely sure because I had never raced those athletes before."<\/p>\n

Lewis clocked the second fastest 200m of her career as she continued to close the gap between Raelene Boyle's 56-year old Australian under-20 record as well as the Olympic qualifying standard of 22.57.<\/p>\n

The English-born Lewis sat out the 100-metre heats at last week's national athletics championships in Adelaide<\/a> to focus on her specialty distance and the event she will most likely race in Paris \u2014 the 200m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian 100m record holder Torrie Lewis has made a huge statement on the international stage just three months out from Paris 2024, with a breakthrough […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386977,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386971\/revisions\/386977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/386975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}