Sha’Carri Richardson Defeats Elaine Thompson-Herah To Win 100M At World Athletics Continental Tour Meet
Competing in her first race in more than two months on Tuesday (August 30), Sha’Carri Richardson defeated Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica to win the 100 meters at a World Athletics Continental Tour silver meet in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Competing at the Spitzen Leichtathletik meeting, which reportedly presented cool, wet and windy conditions, Richardson ran 11.29 to defeat Thompson-Herah by .01 of a second, according to LetsRun.com.
Placed in adjacent lanes, the two sprinters ran almost neck-and-neck for the entire race with Richardson barely holding off the Olympic gold medalist at the end. The victory was Richardson’s first over Thompson-Herah in three attempts after defeats at the 2021 and 2022 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore.
Richardson made international headlines when she was barred from running for Team USA during the Tokyo Olympics last year after testing positive for marijuana use. She was given a 30 day ban, eliminating her from competition.
Her last race was on June 26 when she failed to make the final in either the 100 or 200 meter at the U.S. championships in Eugene. Next up, she’ll be racing in the 100m at the Memorial Van Damme Diamond League meeting in Brussels on Friday, where she will face off against world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
Watch the full race below.
