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In the 100-meter final, she ran a 10.54, beating her nearest rival to the world record, Evelyn Ashford, by 0.30 seconds. In the 200 meter semifinal, she set the world record of 21.56 seconds and then broke this record by 0.22 seconds in winning the final with a time of 21.34 seconds. [37] Like her 100-meter world record, this mark still stands.
[235] [236] It was the fastest season opener by a female sprinter in history. [237] At the Prefontaine Classic at the end of May, she also won the 200 m in a season's best 22.41 s. [238] On June 18, she ran her second 100 m of the season at the Meeting de Paris, equalling her 10.67 s season's best from Nairobi. [236]
One of the most dominant sprinters in the world, she is the 100 m 2019 Pan American Games champion and a three-time Diamond League winner. In 2022, retired American sprinter Michael Johnson called Thompson-Herah and her compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce the two greatest female sprinters of all time. [5]
For generations of sprinters in the women’s 100 meters, 10.49 seconds is the world record they’ve been chasing since 1988. ... with a larger-than-life personality who could be the world’s ...
Sha'Carri Richardson (/ ʃ ə ˈ k ær iː / shə-KARR-ee; [3] born March 25, 2000 [4]) is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres.Richardson rose to fame in 2019 as a freshman at Louisiana State University, running 10.75 seconds to break the 100 m collegiate record at the NCAA Division I Championships.
Other standout sprinters set to contest the 200 meters at the World Championships include Clark, formerly of Alabama, and Favour Ofili, who represents Nigeria, but battled Steiner this college ...
American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, who missed the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for marijuana, won the 100-meter world title Monday in Hungary. ... It was the first women's 100 ...
Christine Mboma (born 22 May 2003) [2] [3] is a Namibian sprinter who competes in the 100 metres and 200 m.At the age of 18, she won a silver medal in the 200 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first ever Namibian woman to win a women's Olympic medal and breaking the world under-20 and African senior record. [4]