American Sha’Carri Richardson was crowned world champion in the 100m, aged 23, ahead of two Jamaicans, Shericka Jackson and defending champion, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Monday in Budapest.
Richardson won in 10”65 (wind: -0.2 m/s) thanks to a great end of race, lane 9, ahead of Jackson (10”72) and Fraser-Pryce (10”77) . The whimsical American was playing her first major championships, after being suspended for a positive cannabis test before the 2021 Olympics and having failed to qualify for the 2022 Worlds on American soil, in personal and sporting difficulty. Richardson thus confirms his return to the front of the stage in the most brilliant of ways after two years in withdrawal.
It’s not so much a surprise in view of the summer season: before Budapest, the Texan sprinter had won eight of the nine 100m races she had run (including heats) and she had four of the seven fastest times of the season. . Five-time world champion in the straight line, Fraser-Pryce is dethroned but she nevertheless obtains, at 36, the sixth world medal of her career on the queen race, the fifteenth in total, in a season launched very late, there are only one month, because of a recalcitrant knee. Jackson, the fastest this year before the final (10”65), takes silver as in 2022.
