Watch: US Sensation Brittany Brown Snubs 10.7 Seconds, Defeats Olympic Star Gabby Thomas

The sporting world never ceases to amaze us. With new stars being born every day, the level of competition in various sports keeps rising. And same could be said for the US Track and Field Athlete, Brittany Brown. Owner of a few records, Brown has just gone on to defeat Tokyo Olympic 2020 bronze medalist Gabby Thomas.

Brittany Brown wins the Michael Johnson Invitational

During this year’s Michael Johnson Invitational event, the audience was treated to a rather eventful watch. US Track and Field star Gabby Thomas was also amongst the lineup and was the favorite to win the race. But, it was not to be as Brittany Brown had other plans in store.
Brown won the silver medal in the 2019 world championship in the 200m category. In high school, Brittany set the all-time school record in the 100m category, clocking in at 11.49seconds (+2.2).

She also set the wind-legal record in the same category at 11.59seconds (+1.7). Both these records still stand. Alongside her 100m records, she also holds the all-time record in the 200m category, clocking in at 23.68seconds (+3.2) and a wind-legal time of 23.79seconds (+0.6).

During this year’s Michael Johnson Invitational, she recorded her personal best time and also her first sub-11 seconds in the 100m category. The third-fastest woman in the world in the 200m category, Gabby Thomas, retweeted a fan’s video of the race with the caption “why aren’t we talking about this?”

Brown started this season with a time of 11.2seconds and in Waco, Texas, she has bettered it by clocking 10.66seconds (+3.2). Gabby came in second with a time 0f 10.80seconds. Tamar Clark finished third with a time of 10.81seconds.

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Gabby showed great sportsman spirit as she admitted to wanting to win the race but had to give props to Brown for her performance.

Other results from the event

Tonea Marshall won the women’s 100m hurdles ahead of fellow compatriot Chanel Brisset and Jamaica’s Ackera Nugent.

800m Olympic champion Athing Mu made a comeback to the sport for the first time since August and won the race with relative ease.

Bryce Deadmon got the gold in 400m in the men’s category while Nicole Yeargin won the women’s 400m with a time of 51.32seconds.

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At the Georgia tech Invitationals, Matthew Boling broke the sub-20 second mark to clock 19.92seconds for the first time in his career. This comes after he broke the sub-10 second barrier in his first wind legal 100m time of 9.98seconds.