Elaine Thompson-Herah is back on the track. The Jamaican track and field sprinter will be making a return to the athletic circuit after nearly one and a half years of staying off the track. The Jamaican sprinter had already resumed her training in November 2025.
Thompson-Herah had last participated at the New York City Grand Prix in 2024. She suffered an Achilles injury and had to miss out on the Paris Olympics as a result.
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According to the latest reports, the 33-year-old sprinter will compete in the Camperdown Classic meet, which will be held tonight in the Jamaican capital, Kingston.
This will be the Jamaican sprinter’s first athletic meet in more than one and a half years.
Thompson-Herah was competing in the New York City Grand Prix as part of preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics. However, she suffered an agonizing Achilles injury, due to which the then 31-year-old sprinter had to be carried off the track.
The five-time Olympic champion later announced that she wouldn’t be participating in the Paris Olympics for the same reason.
Thompson made her breakthrough as a prominent sprinter at the 2015 World Athletics Championships held in Beijing, China. The then 23-year-old sprinter clinched a gold medal in the women’s 4x100m relay, and a silver medal in the women’s 200m. Her performance made both the selectors and the audience take notice, and she was soon on the way to Rio de Janeiro next year, for the much-awaited 2016 Rio Olympics.
Thompson-Herah stunned everyone, including veteran Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, as she won gold in both the 100m and 200m events at the quadrennial event in Rio de Janeiro.
Thompson-Herah was also part of the Jamaican sprint quartet that won silver in the women’s 4x100m relay. From there, the sprinter never looked back, winning 3 Diamond League titles, 3 World Championship medals, and three more Olympic gold medals to her collection.
At the Tokyo Olympics, the Jamaican sprinter clocked 10.61 seconds to break Florence Griffith Joyner’s Olympic record of 10.62 seconds.
A few weeks later, the 29-year-old sprinter stormed to victory at the Eugene Prefontaine Classic, the Diamond League’s Eugene stop, setting a new Jamaican record of 10.54 seconds. It marked the world’s second-fastest time ever, just 0.05 shy of Florence Griffith Joyner’s 10.49 world record set ahead of the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
