The 21-year-old American Sha'Carri Richardson tied the 9th best time in 100-meter history in 10 sec 72 / 100th on Saturday at a meeting in Florida, becoming the sixth-fastest athlete at the same time. fast all the time.
A great hope for American athletics, Richardson saw his time approved, with a steady wind of +1.6 m / s, at the Miramar Invitational.
Which makes her one of the rivals of Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson, reigning world and Olympic champions, for the straight in Tokyo.
His previous personal best was 10.75, set on June 8, 2019, in Austin during the College Championships (NCAA).
She had improved by 13 / 100th the junior world record held since 1977 by the German Marlies Göhr.
And she had already entered, at only 19, in the club of the ten fastest women in the world, in ninth place tied with the American Kerron Stewart.
Here she is in 6th place, behind now the untouchable Florence Griffith-Joyner, who has the three best times in history (10.49, 10.61, 10.62), Carmelita Jetter (10.64), Marion Jones (10.67), Shelly-Ann Fraser -Pryce and Elaine Thompson (10.70).
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