BUDAPEST
\nAmerican Sha\u2019Carri Richardson crushed Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce\u2019s hopes of a sixth women\u2019s world 100m title when she stormed to victory in Budapest on Monday.
\nRichardson sprinted to a championship record of 10.65sec despite being in lane nine to seal a US 100m double after Noah Lyles\u2019 victory in the men\u2019s event on Sunday.
\nShericka Jackson and veteran Jamaican teammate Fraser-Pryce took silver and bronze in 10.72sec and 10.77sec respectively on the third day of action in the Hungarian capital.
\nIt was a remarkable run for the 23-year-old Richardson, who was barred from the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 after testing positive for marijuana.
\nShe then saw her hopes of challenging for a medal at last year\u2019s world championships in Eugene go up in smoke when she failed to qualify in the US trials.
\n\u201cI\u2019m here. I\u2019m the champion. I told you all. I\u2019m not back, I\u2019m better!\u201d said Richardson, whose penchant for regular hair colour changes and brightly painted nails has earned inevitable comparisons to the late Florence Griffith-Joyner.
\nFraser-Pryce, the reigning champion, said she was \u201creally grateful\u201d for a bronze medal after a difficult season that was hampered by a knee injury.
\n\u201cLast year I ran and won in a championship record and it took another championship record to win tonight,\u201d the 36-year-old told the BBC.
\n\u201cSo it just speaks to the level of consistency for female sprinting and being able to make sure that when you show up you have to give 100 percent,\u201d she said.
\nIn a good night on the track for the USA, Grant Holloway became the second athlete after compatriot Greg Foster to claim three consecutive world 110m hurdles titles.
\nHolloway, 25, shot out to a season\u2019s best of 12.96sec to win gold ahead of Jamaica\u2019s Olympic champion Hansle Parchment, who finished in 13.07sec.
\n\u201cThree in a row!\u201d said Holloway. \u201cThe main thing was really just to come through here and defend my title.
\n\u201cI felt no pressure at all, I just wanted to run cleanly and stay calm at the finish line.\u201d
\nThe two field event medals on offer went to Sweden and, in a historic first, Burkina Faso.
\nOlympic champion Daniel Stahl left it late to win a second world discus title that had the crowd gripped.
\nThe Swede, who previously triumphed in Doha in 2019, had control of the leaderboard only for defending champion Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia to grab the lead with his sixth and final throw.
\nAll eyes turned to Stahl for the final throw of the competition and the Swede did not disappoint, throwing a championship record of 71.46m.
\n\u201cThis was my best performance ever,\u201d said Stahl. I had so much focus, I would say 1,000 percent on the last throw after I saw Kristjan.\u201d
\nCeh took silver with 70.02m while Lithuania\u2019s 19-year-old Mykolas Alekna claimed bronze with 68.85m.
\nIn other track events, 400m hurdles stars Karsten Warholm and Femke Bol made short work of their qualifying rounds.
\nWorld record holder Warholm seemed to barely break sweat despite the sultry conditions as he cruised through to Wednesday\u2019s final.
\nDefending world champion Alison Dos Santos of Brazil and American Rai Benjamin also sailed through.
\n\u201cThere is surely going to be someone who challenges me but today it was very good and I felt strong,\u201d said Warholm.
\nBol made up for the disappointment of falling with the line at her mercy in the mixed 4x400m relay by striding clear to ease into Tuesday\u2019s semi-finals.
\n\u201cI do not want to talk about what happened last Saturday,\u201d said the Dutchwoman, the stand-out favourite in the absence of injured American world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.
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