Overview

• Thompson’s 9.75s in the 100m final at the Jamaica National Championships moves him to sixth on the all-time list and marks the fastest national meet time since 2012.
• The run secures the world’s fastest 100m time this season and earns Thompson his second consecutive Jamaican 100m title.
• Thompson insisted that dominating the race’s acceleration and maintenance phases makes a finishing dip secondary to overall speed.
• His 9.75s mark breaks the championship benchmark, eclipsing his own 9.80s semifinal best and outpacing Oblique Seville (9.83s) and Ackeem Blake (9.88s).
• Thompson’s breakthrough positions him as Noah Lyles’s chief rival after Lyles claimed 2024 Olympic gold by a 0.03-second lean finish.