Jefferson-Wooden has thus become the fastest 5th sprinter in history on the straight line.
Olympic bronze medalist last year in Paris, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden (24) therefore continued to start her phenomenal start to the season. It improves its own world’s best world performance by 8 hundredths.
The sprinter thus equals the reference time of Jamaican Shericka Jackson, his compatriot Marion Jones, who fell for doping, and his training partner Sha’Carri Richardson, who did not compete in the semi-finals on Friday in Eugene.
“Unreal”
Supplique world champion, Richardson is automatically invited to Tokyo. But it is Melissa Jefferson-Wooden who is now a favorite with the Olympic champion of Sainte-Lucie Julien Alfred.
“I have long dreamed of days like this, it becomes concrete now. It is unreal, to think of all these big champions … Being part of this list is quite crazy,” she said in the mixed zone.
Jefferson-Woodall widely preceded another training partner on Friday, Kayla White (10”84) and Aleia Hobbs (10”92), the three therefore accompanying Richardson on the straight line at the world championships in Tokyo (September 13-21).
0’07 better
A few minutes earlier, Kenny Bednarek (26), who trained in the same group in Florida, also soaring by winning the 100 m male in 9”79. Double Olympic vice-champion of the 200 m and Olympic finalist on the straight line, Bednarek has largely improved his personal record (9”86 in early June).
“I am happy with my performance, I knew that I had it in my legs, and I still have room,” reacted the 12th best performer in history, revealing that he was still the victim of a half-tide cramp.
His time, the fastest 2nd of the season behind the Jamaican Kishane Thompson (9”75), allowed him to get ahead of Courtney Lindsey (9”82) and the surprising T’mars McCallum (9”83), whose mission will be to accompany Bednarek to Tokyo.
The trio will be joined by the world champion and reigning Olympic champion Noah Lyles, who retired before the semi-finals after playing the series on Thursday. Trayvon Bromell (4th in 9”84) and the 2019 world champion Christian Coleman (5th in 9”86) will have to be satisfied with a place in the 4×100 m relay in Japan.