Sha’Carri Richardson just stunned the world on Monday evening. Stunned everyone in the track and field world. Stunned everybody in the women’s 100-meter finals at the World Athletics Championships. Stunned everyone, except herself. Because winning a world championship gold medal is exactly what she said she was going to do.
The ever-confident 23-year-old Nike-sponsored sprinter from Dallas won the world championship title in the 100-meter dash on Monday evening in Budapest, Hungary, outrunning one of the fastest and deepest fields ever assembled in a meet-record and career-best time of 10.65 seconds.
It’s the first global medal of Richardson’s career, and she beat two legendary Jamaican superstars to do it—edging both Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, 36, a five-time world champion and the 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion, and Shericka Jackson, 29, who entered the meet as world leader and the favorite to win gold.
Jackson wound up a close second in 10.72 seconds to earn the silver medal, while Fraser-Pryce took bronze in 10.77 seconds.
The win is enormous and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Not only did…
