USA's Jefferson-Wooden golden with 100m title

TOKYO -- Melissa Jefferson-Wooden of the U.S. and Oblique Seville of Jamaica won the 100-meter finals astatine the satellite championships Sunday successful a changing of the defender successful track.

Jefferson-Wooden blew distant the tract successful the women's final, finishing successful 10.61 seconds to interruption Sha'Carri Richardson's two-year-old satellite title record. Richardson hardly squeezed into the last and finished 5th contempt moving a season-best 10.94.

Seville, who works with Usain Bolt's aged coach, Glen Mills, reeled successful countryman Kishane Thompson for a triumph successful 9.77 successful the men's final. Defending satellite and Olympic champion Noah Lyles finished third.

The women's contention was beauteous overmuch implicit arsenic soon arsenic it started. Jefferson-Wooden blew distant Jamaica's Tina Clayton by 0.15 -- the aforesaid borderline Olympic champion Julien Alfred, who finished 3rd this time, bushed Richardson by successful Paris past year.

Richardson, who trains with Jefferson-Wooden, wasn't the aforesaid runner arsenic past twelvemonth oregon the twelvemonth earlier erstwhile she won worlds.

After finishing 3rd successful her semifinal heat, Richardson had to hold to spot if she would get 1 of the past 2 spots. She did and started connected the wrong successful Lane 2 but was ne'er a factor. While Jefferson-Wooden jumped and shouted into the stands, Richardson dilatory paced the wrong of the way with her hands connected hips.

The second-place decorativeness for Clayton kept Jamaica connected the podium connected the nighttime its champion pistillate sprinter, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, said goodbye with a sixth-place finish.

Bolt watched from a luxury container -- his archetypal instrumentality to a large contention since helium exited the athletics successful 2017 -- and was high-fiving and hugging friends erstwhile helium watched a Jamaican triumph the men's rubric for the archetypal clip since helium near the sport.

There were immoderate who argued Seville, not Thompson -- who adds this metallic to his metallic astatine the Paris Olympics -- was the champion young sprinter connected the island. Seville has a winning grounds against Lyles but had not been capable to enactment it unneurotic successful the biggest races.

This time, helium did. After falling down by astir 2 steps halfway done the contention contempt getting the champion start, Seville ne'er panicked, closing the spread connected Thompson measurement by step.