Thompson-Herah returns to Elite Performance

Double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has returned to training at Elite Performance Track Club under the guidance of coach Reynaldo Walcott.

The Gleaner has been reliably informed that Thompson-Herah, the 2016 and 2021 Olympic sprint double champion, has been training at the Old Hope Road-based Elite Performance for the past three weeks.

Efforts to get a comment from Walcott proved futile, as several calls to his mobile phone went unanswered.

The 33-year-old Thompson-Herah, who remains the fastest woman alive with her blistering 10.54-second 100 metres clocking in 2021, is making a return to Elite Performance after parting ways with the club in 2024.

She had competed in only two races last season, including the New York Grand Prix in June, where she sustained an Achilles injury.

The injury forced her to miss the 2024 National Championships, ruling her out of contention for the Paris Olympic Games, where she was unable to defend her 100m and 200m titles. Thompson-Herah was also forced to miss the 2025 track and field season because of injuries.

Thompson-Herah is regarded as one of the greatest female sprinters of all time after becoming the first woman to take the sprint double at consecutive Olympic Games in 2016 and 2021 (Tokyo 2020).

At Tokyo 2020, she clocked an Olympic record 10.61 to win gold in the 100m and a then national record 21.53 over 200m. The current national record for the 200m is Shericka Jackson’s 21.41, a time she clocked in 2023.