Two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has gone top in the Diamond Race rankings after storming to a clear victory in the women's 100 meters here on Saturday at the Paris meeting.

The 28-year-old Jamaican, who's not defending her world title in 200m in Beijing but focuses on 100m this year, clocked 10.74 seconds to outdate the previous world best of 10.79 that she and English Gardner of the United States both had claimed last month.

Fraser-Pryce's title-winning time is 0.06 seconds faster than the second-placed Nigerian Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor, whose 10.80 seconds also bettered the previous meeting record of 10.88, made by legendary American Marion Jones in Paris 17 years ago.

Gardner with a fastest reaction in Saturday's sprint, finished a distant third at 10.97 to rank sixth on the Diamond Race table.

"When you have good runners there, you always run fast. That is for me the motivation. We had excellent field today," said Fraser-Pryce after the race.

"I think I have room to improve, in my technique, in the start," added the fastest woman in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, who claimed a treble victory at the Moscow worlds in 2013 by winning 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.

"I'm not satisfied with my starting reaction could have been better, in the overall execution of my race," she said.

The Jamaican, who also took a 200m silver at the 2012 London Games, said she'd be back to training in her Italian base in Lignano.

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