Sha’Carri Richardson is the new queen of the 100m. At 23, the American was crowned world champion over this distance, ahead of two Jamaicans, Shericka Jackson and the defending champion, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, on Monday at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Richardson won in 10 seconds 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.
A brilliant comeback after two years behind
Richardson thus confirms his return to the front of the stage in the most brilliant of ways after two years in withdrawal. However, this is not a surprise in view of her 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) won silver as in 2022.