Lewis smashes her own Australian 100m record at worlds

Lewis smashes her own Australian 100m record at worlds

Australian sprinter Torrie Lewis has smashed her own national 100m record to storm into the semi-finals on day one of the world athletics championships in Tokyo.

Lewis made light of being drawn in the hardest of the seventh heats, flying out of the blocks on Saturday and holding her form in the closing stages to clock 11.08 seconds.

She finished a close third behind defending world champ Sha'Carri Richardson from the US (11.03) and Jamaican Shericka Jackson (11.04), who has won the past two world 200m titles.

The 20-year-old Lewis stripped two-hundredths of a second from her previous national record of 11.10 set last year in Canberra, with the promise of even better to come in Sunday's semi-finals.

"I was super nervous before

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