Sha’Carri Richardson recently earned her maiden Olympic gold medal. On August 9, the sprinter led the US women’s track and field team to gold in the 4×100 relay at the Paris Summer Games in 41.78 seconds. Richardson led the team to gold after Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, and Gabby Thomas, finishing the final stretch of the race in 10.09 seconds. Despite the weather, Richardson outperformed her competition, topping Great Britain’s Daryll Neita by 0.07 seconds. Great Britain finished second, collecting silver, and Germany claimed bronze.
The victory marks 24-year-old Richardson’s second Olympic medal. She secured silver in the women’s 100-meter race on August 3 with a time of 10.87 seconds—0.22 seconds shy of her personal best. At the 2023 World Athletics Championships, Richardson set a new world record of 10.65 seconds and earned herself the title of “fastest woman in the world.”
While her Olympic dreams were put on hold after being disqualified from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to a failed drug test, Richardson has made quite the comeback and is leaving the Paris Games with two Olympic medals under her belt.
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