CHORZÓW, POLAND, July 16 — In a matchup between the two hot women’s 100 hands of the moment at the Skolimowska Memorial, Sha’Carri Richardson for a second time this season dispatched Olympic and World Champs silver medalist Shericka Jackson.
The pair were timed in 10.76 and 10.78 as the American closed down the Jamaican 200 world champ’s mid-race lead with a powerful finish over the final 30m and an all-but-absent lean at the line.
During the DL’s early-July pause, at their national championships the two sprinters had stoked anticipation. First on July 06 USA champ Richardson had streaked Hayward Field’s straight for a 10.71 heat win and the world lead. The next day in the Jamaican final, Jackson went 0.06 faster with 10.65.
Before their race here, Jackson commented on her swift PR, “As I said at the Jamaica Trials, this was to focus on the 100 and I think I mastered that at the Trials. So it’s just building from here.”
Jackson, who only took up the 100 in earnest in ’21 after 7 years as a 400 force, added, “I don’t limit what I’m capable of, not because I just started sprinting probably 2 years ago. I think I am capable of anything. And as I said, once Coach [Stephen Francis] and I work on the weak part and continue to maintain the strong part, I think anything is possible.”
On this humid, hot — mid-to-high 80s (30C and above) — evening the only thing Jackson could not do was outlast Richardson.
The race brought a thrill for the home crowd too as Polish lightning-starter Ewa Swoboda tore out of the blocks quickest, with Jackson to her immediate right also sharp with her getaway. By 60m the Jamaican had a clear lead but then Richardson came whooshing like a comet.
A close photo read was required, just to be sure, and Richardson danced and smiled before the crowd of 23,000 when the result flashed up officially.
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