Sha’Carri Richardson: Bring On The World Championships!

US 100m champion, Sha’Carri Richardson has thrown down the gauntlet with just a little over one month to the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

The 23 year old 2019 NCAA 100m champion sped to an impressive 10.76 to win the 100m event at the Diamond League meeting in Silesia, Poland on Sunday ahead of Jamaica’s 100m queen, Shericka Jackson who ran 10.65 to win the Jamaican championships just over a week ago.

Richardson has flaterred to deceive since she scorched to a 10.75 finish to win the NCAA title in Austin, Texas in 2019 but the American seems to have found her focus and has been very consistent so far this season.

Her win in Silesia is the second in the Diamond League this term after running 10.76 to win the opening leg of the 14 leg series in Doha in May.

The American was excited with her perfromance in Silesia, especially with the much advertised showdown between her and Jackson.

‘It was an amazing race, I am really having fun. The 10.76 – I love the time. I put a great race together. This was a great competition, it was amazing. I executed correctly. I love the atmosphere here.

‘I wish we could replicate this to the US. All the energy, all the love from the audience. I was satisfied with my race altogether,’ she said post race.

Meanwhile, home girl, Ewa Swoboda who finished third in the race was delighted to run inside 11 seconds for the first time in her career.

‘I have waited for this for a long time and I finally got it. My coach said we got the perfect conditions today, the sort that may not happen again. I am all sweaty, tired, but happy. We have a lot of people here and they carried me on.

‘My friends, my parents, my boyfriend, they are all here, so I feel fantastic.

‘Sha´Carri carried a lot of positive energy into the call room and I was not even stressed before the race. The reaction time was good. The coach told me I had to keep my pace until the finish and I did. Now I am going to eat, because this heat took a lot of energy out of me, then I will relax with my loved ones,’ she said after the race,