TOKYO :Melissa Jefferson-Wooden woke up as the world 100 metres champion and fourth-fastest woman in history after her incredible 10.61 second run in Sunday's final, but she is already looking ahead and thinks 10.5 and beyond is possible.

Florence Griffith-Joyner's much-questioned 10.49 from 1988 has been untouchable for decades, though Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah edged closer with her 10.54 in 2021.

Jefferson-Wooden, still only 24 and very much on an upward curve, thinks she is capable of reaching that level.

"You've certainly got no regrets after running 10.61," she told Reuters in an interview at Nike's Tokyo headquarters on Monday.

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