Sha’Carri Richardson ended Jamaica’s reign of the 100 meters after winning gold in the final of the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest with an impressive 10.65 (-0.2) all-time record.
Richardson, 23, missed the Tokyo Olympic Games due to a cannabis-related sanction and failed miserably at the 2022 trials.
She displayed her potential this season with a personal best of 10.71, but had to deal with Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson to win the championship.
The final was closely contested until the last 20 meters when Richardson shifted gears to defeat Jackson (10.72), who arrived in Budapest with the same record as the American sprinter.
Richardson reached the final by time (10.84) about an hour earlier after finishing third in a semifinal dominated by Jackson herself and Marie-Josée Ta Lou, both with a 10.79 time.
Who is Sha’Carri Richardson?
Born in Dallas, Texas on March 25th, 2000, her grandmother had an instrumental role in her upbringing and motivated her to be an athlete.
She had rather a choppy start to life after her mother abandoned her. With no siblings in picture, the athlete was raised by her grandmother, Betty Harp, and her aunt.
Who was Sha’Carri Richardson’s mother?
Sha’ Carri Richardson lost her biological mother prior to the Olympic Trials.
In an interview with NBC, the Texan said that her biological mother had passed away a week before the Olympic trials began.
“My family has kept me grounded. This year has been crazy for me,” she said.
“Going from, just last week, losing my biological mother, and I’m still here. I’m still here.
“Last week finding out my biological mother passed away and still choosing to pursue my dreams, still coming out here and still making sure to make the family that I do still have on this earth proud.”
Sha’ Carri Richardson did not elaborate on the circumstances of the death of her biological mother.
She continued, “The fact that nobody knows what I go through, everybody has struggles and I understand that but y’all see me on this track and yall see the poker face I put on but [my family] and my coach knows what I go through on a day-to-day basis and I’m highly grateful for them.
“Without them, there would be no me. Without my grandmother, there would be no Sha’Carri Richardson. My family is my everything – my everything until the day I’m done,” Richardson said.
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