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#BudaQuest | Richardson blinder leaves Jackson, Fraser-Pryce second, third

Published:Monday | August 21, 2023 | 3:31 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter
From left: Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, and Sha'Carri Richardson celebrate their World Athletics Championships 100-metre medals with a selfie right after the event inside the National Athletics Centre.
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From left: Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, and Sha'Carri Richardson celebrate their World Athletics Championships 100-metre medals with a selfie right after the event inside the National Athletics Centre.

Jamaica’s pair of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson mined silver and bronze medals respectively in the final of the women’s 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

The silver-medal winning Jackson crossed the tape in a time of 10.72 seconds while Fraser-Pryce took bronze in 10.77.

Despite qualifying for the final as a non-automatic qualifier and running from lane nine, America’s Sha’Carri Richardson stunned the field, taking gold in a championship record, 10.65.

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