What times did Sha’Carri Richardson clock in the 100m and 200m in New York?

Sha’Carri Richardson has put herself firmly back in the running for a medal tilt at the upcoming World Championships with a quick-fire display in New York at the NYC Grand Prix last weekend. The 22-year-old US sprinter, whose first meet of the season was less than a month ago at the Duvall County Challenge in Jacksonville, won the 200m and clocked a season-best in the 100m.

In Jacksonville, in a low-key return to the track, Richardson recorded a 100m time of 11.37 in the official race, which was then rerun without a headwind by some of the athletes, and in the rain. She then clocked 11.27 to win.

A week later at the Prefontaine Classic, held on the same track where the worlds will take place, Richardson clocked 10.92 behind double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, recording her fastest time since the 2021 US Olympic Trials - after which she tested positive for cannabis and was handed a ban that ruled her out of the covid-delayed Tokyo Games – and a huge improvement on her time at the same meet last year when she finished last after returning from her brief layoff.

Richardson runs season-best 100m in New York

In New York, she was second in the 100m behind Aleia Hobbs, who ran a US season-leading and personal best 10.83, Richardson recording a season-best 10.85, seven-hundredths of a second below her personal best of 10.72. She then went on to win the 22m in a time of 22.38.

That run of 10.72 in April, 2021, in Florida confirmed Richardson as the sixth-fastest woman of all time. After a difficult year, it seems she may be peaking just in time to make her mark at the World Championships in July, on the same track where Thompson-Herah set a mark of 10.54 last year to become the second-fastest woman of all time and raise the prospect of Florence Griffith-Joyner’s long-standing world record of 10.49 being challenged. Before her ban in 2021, Richardson has run sub-10.80 three times.