Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred opens her 2026 season with a 10.76 Diamond League win in Oslo

Saint Lucia’s Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred opened her 2026 Diamond League campaign with a 10.76 victory in Oslo, timed on her 25th birthday, signalling sharp early-season form. Alfred remains the small island’s biggest global sporting star and a source of outsized diaspora pride, with a much-anticipated 200m rivalry against Melissa Jefferson-Wooden shaping the season ahead. Her results continue to put Saint Lucia on the world athletics map far beyond its size. For Caribbean fans at home and abroad, she is the name to follow through the summer’s championship build-up.

Source: Associates Times; WIC News athletics coverage.