T&T's Leah Bertrand broke the sub-11 bar­ri­er for the women's 100 me­tres when she sped to a wind-aid­ed (+3.9m/s) 10.94 sec­onds on the fi­nal day at the Texas Re­lays at the Mike A. My­ers Sta­di­um, Austin, Texas, USA Sat­ur­day.

Bertrand's clock­ing was set as she fin­ished sec­ond in the women's fi­nals. Amer­i­can In­dya May­ber­ry of TCU was first to the line in 10.91. Tar­leton State's Vic­to­ria Cameron was third (11.09). In the pre­lim­i­nar­ies, the pre­vi­ous day, Bertrand clocked 11.34 (+0.8 m/s) in win­ning heat three. May­ber­ry (11.22) topped the pre­lim­i­nary round.

Though Bertrand's 10.94 would not be recog­nised as a per­son­al best as the wind read­ing was over the legal­ly al­low­able lim­it of 2.0 m/s, the 2024 Paris Olympic semi­fi­nal­ist joined the ex­clu­sive club of T&T sprint­ers to be­low the 11-sec­ond bar­ri­ers. The reign­ing na­tion­al cham­pi­on is among the lo­cal elite women's run­ners with na­tion­al record hold­er Michelle-Lee Ahye lead­ing the way with 10.82 (+0.9m/s) and for­mer record-hold­er Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste with 10.84 (+1.8m/s).

Bertrand's le­gal best is 11.08, which ranks her joint fifth on the T&T all-time list with Fana Ash­by. How­ev­er, the Point Fortin na­tive can now look for­ward to legal­ly crack­ing the 11-sec­ond bar­ri­er.

Her 11.34 run in the heats put the 22-year-old at 17th on the World list and is the top lo­cal for this sea­son so far. She is ahead of ju­niors Sanaa Fred­er­ick (11.49), Alexxe Hen­ry (11.58) and 22-year-old Tae­jha Badal (11.61).

Bertrand al­so raced in the 4x100m re­lay and her Ohio State team placed 12th with 45.18.

Texas Re­lays 2025

Women

100m

Fi­nal (+3.9)

1 In­dya May­ber­ry (TCU) 10.91

2 Leah Bertrand (Ohio State/Sim­plex) 10.94

3 Vic­to­ria Cameron (Tar­leton State) 11.09