Today, we continue the countdown of the top races of the 2018 track season with the women’s sprints. Yesterday, we covered the men’s and women’s hurdle races which you can find here. 

100m: Doha Diamond League

With Aleia Hobbs dominating the collegiate season, Marie Josee Ta Lou having her way with the Diamond League and some key absence (Tori Bowie), it was hard to zero in on a specific high point for the event this year. 

Despite not taking the Diamond League title, Ta Lou was the class of the event winning 12 of her 13 races and posting a best mark of 10.85. That time came way back at the first Diamond League of the year in Doha. In total, five women broke 11 seconds in the race, making it the deepest of the entire year. Ta Lou’s 10.85 held up as a world lead all the way mid-July when Great Britain's Dina-Asher Smith ran the same time to win the European Championships. 

200m: European Championships

In those same championships, Asher-Smith ran a 21.89 to take gold and reset her own British record.  It was a dream meet for the 22-year-old, sweeping the 100m and 200m and defeating world champion Dafne Schippers in both races. Nobody ran faster than 21.89 on the year, not even Shaunae Miller-Uibo who took several cracks at the distance and never lost a race.   

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400m: Monaco Diamond League

In what may have been the best competition of the entire track season, Shaunae Miller-Uibo held off Salwa Eid Naser to win the Monaco 400m. It was a race that was both fast and competitive. 

Miller-Uibo entered as the favorite, but the two had raced so sparingly that there was mystery about the result. 

Both had run quickly without the company of the other and both would surely be better if the other was on the start line. It happened, for the only time of the year, in Monaco. 

The fast track did its part and Miller-Uibo and Naser took care of the rest. Miller-Uibo’s 48.97 was a lifetime best and the fastest mark since 2009, while Naser broke her own national record with a 49.08.