Masai Russell dominant in Monaco
Masai Russell ran 12.20 to win the ladies’s 100m hurdles in Monaco from Alaysha (12.38). Russell received the Paris Olympics in 2024 with a time of 12.33. She has run 8 hurdle races this season with a document of 8-0 because the People wish to name it! The quickest of these 8 wins was 12.14 within the Diamond League in Xiamen. She didn’t fairly get it proper within the 2025 Worlds, ending fourth in 12.44.
Her evaluation of her race in Monaco was: “It felt like a great, clear execution. I used to be shifting by means of the hurdles very nicely, and it felt good and clean. Actually, at this level, I don’t assume there’s any room for me to enhance. It’s actually simply perfecting the entire sculpture. Simply to place all of it collectively. Simply doing the identical factor I’ve been doing. I’ve been placing collectively some actually, actually good races and instances. And if you do the identical factor numerous instances, that’s when the larger performances come. So I do know one thing massive is coming. No stress. Properly, I have no idea what’s the assembly document in Budapest, however that’s the place I’m heading subsequent. So I hope to interrupt the meet document there after which proceed it for the remainder of the season. I’m simply having enjoyable with it – simply let the work that you just put in present itself. Earlier than the competitors, I like doing numerous TikTok dances. I like recording numerous movies, having enjoyable”.
On the press convention in Monaco, I requested her about the way in which the ladies’s dash hurdles had been getting quicker and quicker. She advised me that there have been a number of elements: “I believe the rationale why the ladies’s hurdles have turn into among the finest occasions, one of many quickest occasions, one of many hardest occasions is simply attributable to evolution. I believe that when there’s numerous quick individuals on the identical time, you begin to see quick instances turn into extra regular, like me operating 12:2 constantly. I believe it’s simply we’re studying extra. There are extra sources now than there have been 10 years in the past. So I actually simply attest to realizing extra and identical to proper place, proper time. It’s identical to for the boys’s 100 was again when Usain Bolt was operating – that was just like the period for the 100, and I really feel like we’re in that period now for the ladies’s 100 hurdles”.
When it comes to how briskly she might go, she stated: “I do imagine breaking sub 12 is unquestionably doable simply on the observe that every one the ladies’s hurdles are going and particularly myself operating 12:1 3 times now. I believe that it’s undoubtedly doable for me simply because I do know I’m nonetheless very younger on this sport. I really feel like I’m nonetheless constructing, I’m nonetheless getting stronger. I’m nonetheless studying issues about myself. So yeah, I imply, I believe after I flip like, , possibly 28, 29, 30, and I get even stronger and quicker and much more expertise, I believe that we’ll begin to see 12:0s and 11:9s”.
She added: “That is undoubtedly essentially the most match I’ve ever felt, the most effective I’ve ever felt. I felt actually good final yr, however this yr is unquestionably topping that. So I’m simply excited to maintain constructing for the remainder of the season and see what we are able to do.
She dealt with herself nicely on the presser, saying all the precise issues: “The observe is quick. The competitors is at all times nice on the Diamond League. So I’m simply pleased to be right here”.
She added that he was an athlete who ran to win, to not obtain instances: “I’ve no time in my head for Monaco. I’m simply actually going on the market to compete, race to win, and I at all times say the time will handle it. With the ladies’s hurdles, the competitors is at all times actually good. So I do know {that a} quick time will come and the observe is quick. I really feel actually good. I’m in the most effective form of my life. So I don’t chase instances. I simply chase wins, and with wins come quick instances”.
Masai Russell is an impressive athlete and a vigorous character to go together with it.
You possibly can hear Masai Russell reply Stuart’s questions on the press convention after 1 hour 22:20
