America’s Melissa Jefferson-Woodan and Jamaica’s oblique Seval won the 100-meter finals at the World Championship in changing the guard in the track on Sunday.
24-year-old Jefferson-Woodon blown the ground in the women’s final, which ended in 10.61 seconds to break Shahari Richardson’s two-year World Championship record. Richardson barely squeezed the final and finished fifth despite running the season-best 10.94.
Sevile, who works with the old coach of Usain Bolt, Glenn Mills, reels the men’s final in the country’s Kishan Thompson to win 9.77. Defending World and Olympic champion Noah Lules finished third.
As soon as it started, the race of women was very high. Jefferson-Woodon found almost a step ahead of the Julian Alfred in the lane next to her, then expanded her leadership and worked hard through the line when she could go to the coast. She ended with a 0.15-second gap at Tina Clayton in Jamaica-the same gap Alfred, who finished third this time, defeated Richardson in Paris last year.
“This year was about to accept that I wanted to be a better athlete and was working to do so,” Jefferson-Woodon said.
Richardson, who trains with Jefferson-Wooden, was not the same runner last year or a year ago, when she wins the world.
After finishing third in his semi -final heat, Richardson had to wait to see if he would find one of the last two places. He did and started from inside in lane 2, but never a factor. While Jefferson-Woodon jumped and shouted at the stand, Richardson slowly ran inside the track with his hands on his hips.
Jamaica was placed on the podium at the end of the second place for Clayton, while its best female sprinter, Shelli-N Fraser-Prose said goodbye with the sixth place.
Bolt watched from a luxury box-The first return in a big race since he got out of the game in 2017-and when he saw a Jamaica title for the first time after leaving the game, he was high-faking and hugging.
There were some who argued Seval, not Thompson – who adds this silver to his silver in the Paris Olympics – was the best young runner on the island. The 24 -year -old Sevile has a victorious record against Lyels, but was not able to keep it together in the biggest race.
This time, he did it. Despite getting the best start, after falling back from about two steps through the race, Sevile never panicked, the Thompson Step closed the difference on the step by step.
After Botswana’s Olympic 200-meter champion Latsile Tabogo, the men’s race was needed to resume, disqualified for a false start.
Now, the question is whether it is united-sometimes these things occur in the year after the Olympics-or if the Jefferson-Woodon and Sevela are sprinters to see with three years and count the game of Los Angeles.
Jefferson-Wooden definitely looks like a force. A tanner in high school, his college coach once said that she was sparked as a child walking on the road. She moved to Florida for training with Dennis Mitchell and with Richardson, whose tests and travels have overched the women’s track for the last four years.
But Jefferson-Woodon won the US title in 2022-a year when Richardson struggled-and took a bronze medal in last year’s Olympics, after which he announced that he is still a child in the game who have been with a lot of time to learn. Now, he has found a piece of history, holds the championship record and is away from the world record of 1988 organized by Florence Griffith-Joyner.
“Obviously, as a championship record, even though it was ‘Carrie’, it is now mine,” said Jefferson-Wooden. “It’s like crazy to say.”
Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.
