Zoe Hobbs has smashed the 11-second barrier for the 100m, running 10.89s in winning today’s final at the New Zealand Championships in Wellington.
The 25-year-old ran with a 3.4m/s tailwind — above the permissable 2m/s to count as a record — but was stunned with her time in her first competition of the season.
”I can’t believe it — what the heck,” Hobbs said. “I was not expecting that, to have just come back from injury. I just wanted to be in one piece on the finish line. To open my season like that is incredible.”
Hobbs blitzed the field at Newtown Park, finishing five metres ahead of second-placed Rosie Elliott in 11.36s.
She earlier broke the national 100m record for the sixth time in 15 months when she ran 11.07s in the morning’s heats.
