Dina Asher-Smith became Britain’s quickest female sprinter of all time on Sunday after breaking the national 100m record at a meeting in the Netherlands.
The 19-year-old history undergraduate from King’s College London finished second behind the European champion Dafne Schippers at the FBK Games in Hengelo in a time of 11.02 seconds, beating the previous mark set by Montell Douglas in 2008 by 0.03sec. Asher-Smith’s time was 0.12sec faster than her previous best and came in her first 100m race of the outdoor season.
Sparkly new pb of 11.02 which also makes me the British record holder!!! WowWowWow! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
— Dina Asher-Smith (@dinaashersmith) May 24, 2015
Schippers – who also beat Asher-Smith to gold at the European Indoor Championships earlier this year, ran a Dutch record of 10.94sec, while Asha Philip, the reigning British 100m champion, also broke her personal best to finish third in 11.10sec – the third fastest time by a British woman. Chijindu Ujah, who ran 9.96sec in the men’s 100m at the same meeting last year, beat British rival Adam Gemili in a time of 10.09sec.
