Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won a 100m over Julien Alfred and Sha'Carri Richardson in a matchup of the three 2024 Olympic medalists in the event.
Jefferson-Wooden clocked 10.78 seconds at a Diamond League meet in Poland on Sunday. Alfred, the Olympic champion, was second in 10.83 and Richardson, who trains in the same group as Jefferson-Wooden, was third in 10.96.
It was the first meeting among the trio since the September 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, where Jefferson-Wooden won in 10.61, Alfred earned bronze in 10.84 and Richardson was fifth in 10.88.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Alfred won in 10.72, followed by Richardson (10.87) and Jefferson-Wooden (10.92).
All three could meet again at the first World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest from Sept. 11-13.
Also Sunday, Ethan Strand won the men's 1500m in 3:30.77 over a field that included the last two Olympic gold medalists in the event — fellow American Cole Hocker (third, 3:31.16) and Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen (fourth, 3:31.19).
Strand, a 23-year-old who is in line to be upgraded to 2025 U.S. 1500m champion following Jonah Koech’s ban, earned the biggest international win of his career.
Earlier Sunday, Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha broke the world record in the half marathon (13.1 miles), clocking 56 minutes, 51 seconds in Buenos Aires.
Kejelcha went 29 seconds faster than the previous record of 57:20 set by Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda in March in Lisbon, Portugal. Kejelcha previously held the world record of 57:30 from October 2024.
At the London Marathon this past April, Kejelcha ran the second-fastest full marathon in history in his debut at the distance — 1:59:41 — second only to the man who won that race, Kenyan Sabastian Sawe, who ran 1:59:30.
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