Paris 2024 Women's 100m Preview: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Sha'Carri Richardson, and Dina Asher-Smith headline full schedule
The women’s 100m will jumpstart the individual sprint action at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on Friday (2 August). So, who will be the new Olympic champion at the Stade de France?
Double sprint world champion Sha’Carri Richardson is seeking her first Games medal, and leads a stacked women’s field that also includes three-time Olympic gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah is absent at the Paris Games through injury, while her Jamaican teammate Shericka Jackson announced that she would not compete on 31 July.
The women’s 100m contest is likely to be defined by the rivalry between the U.S. and Jamaican athletes, who between them have recorded seven of the ten fastest times ever. Richardson is joint fifth fastest on the all-time list at 10.65 seconds.
Paris 2024 is a redemption Games for the U.S. star Richardson, who missed Tokyo 2020 after testing positive for THC (cannabis), a substance banned under World Anti-Doping Agency rules.
“Every move you make is leading to checkmate. So the Olympics, that’s checkmate, that’s the moment an athlete dreams about,” she told Vogue Magazine in the lead up to the Olympics.
Africa’s fastest woman, Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith**,** Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred, 2019 world champion Dina Asher-Smith and Nigeria's Rosemary Chukwuma are the other big names to keep an eye on.
With such a fast field, Florence Griffith Joyner’s 100m world record of 10.49 seconds that has stood since 1988 could be under threat.
Below is the full women's 100m schedule at Paris 2024 and how to watch all the action live.
The women’s 100m full schedule at Paris 2024 Olympics
The women’s 100m start on Friday (2 August) with the preliminary round, before the semi-finals and the finals a day later on Saturday (3 August).
Eight women will line up for the race for the Olympic gold medal in the 100m final.
All times local to Paris (UTC+2).
Friday, 2 August
- 10:35 – Women’s 100m preliminary round
- 11:50 – Women’s 100m first round
Saturday, 3 August
- 19:50 – Women’s 100m semi-final
- 21:20 – Women’s 100m final
How to watch the women’s 100m live at Paris 2024
All of the action from the women’s 100m from the preliminary rounds thorough to the final race from Paris 2024 can be watched via media rights holders (MRH) here.
- MRH include Nine in Australia, Globo in Brazil, CBC in Canada, CCTV in People's Republic of China, Fuji TV/NHK/Nippon TV/TBS/TV Asahi/TV Tokyo in Japan, SKY NZ in New Zealand, SuperSport in South Africa, NBC in the United States, and Discovery Eurosport across Europe, alongside France Télévisions in France, ARD/ZDF in Germany, and BBC Sport in the United Kingdom, among others.