The boss of the women’s 100m is now called Sha’Carri Richardson (10 “65). The American, in lane 9, was crowned world champion this Monday, August 21, in Budapest. At 23, she won her first title World Cup thanks to a great finish, ahead of two Jamaicans Shericka Jackson (10″72) and the defending champion, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10″77).
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.
Sha’Carri Richardson, 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. 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 had four of the seven fastest times of the season. .
On the planet of the 110m hurdles, there is only Grant Holloway. The 25-year-old American dominated Monday’s final head and shoulders in 12.96. This is his third consecutive world title in this event. Already titled in Doha (2019) and Eugene (2022) and second at the Tokyo Games in 2021, he set his best time of the season to win. The holder of the second best performance of all time over 110m hurdles (12.81) thus confirms his domination of the event .
Frenchman Sacha Zhoya, promise of French athletics and junior world record holder in the 110m hurdles, was playing his first world final at 21 years old. He finished sixth in 13.26 after a complicated start. “I’m not happy with my start, I was sleeping in the blocks, I rushed because I wanted to have the same start as in the semi-final, where I had succeeded. I thought about it too much, I could have been more free in my head. I’m taking this experience, I’m waiting for the continuation, ” Zhoya then explained in the mixed zone, a big smile on his face.
The hurdler, who grew up in Australia where he was born to a French mother and a Zimbabwean father, is slowly fulfilling the expectations placed on his immense potential, for his second season on the senior high hurdles. After choosing France in 2020, the junior world record holder continues to make his way to the Paris Olympics in 2024, for which he has just validated his place, according to the selection criteria of the French Athletics Federation. .
“It was very important for Paris-2024. This 6th place with a bad start is better, it gives me confidence, it takes a little stress out of me, I can’t wait to see what I can do next year.
The Blues, not yet rewarded in Budapest, may have regrets when they also placed Wilhem Belocian in the final. The Guadeloupean finished eighth in 13″32. The third friend, Just Kwaou-Mathey, had been eliminated in the semi-finals.
