Top 10 Fastest Women Ever in 100m And Where Richardson Ranks Following Budapest Victory

• Sha'Carri Richardson is the world 100m champion after a stunning race in the final
• She stunned the favoured Jamaicans Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
• Sports Brief looks at the fastest women of all time in 100m after last night's epic final

The 100 metres race at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was unforgettable. The semi-finals were dramatic, and the final was hair-raising.

In the end, Sha'Carri Richardson - the young, upbeat and talented American sprinter - narrowly beat the nearly indomitable Jamaicans to win the world title in her first global event.

The gold medal was the culmination of a turbulent journey on the track for the American star. She missed the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and last year's World Athletics Championships due to a myriad of issues.

However, on Monday night, she was not to be denied. Running on the 9th lane, she didn't have the best of starts, but that didn't matter as she flew past Jamaican veteran, Shericka Jackson and five-time world champion, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

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Richardson clocked 10.65 seconds, a championships record, shaving 0.02 off Fraser-Pryce’s record set last year in Oregon. The American's performance makes her one of the fastest women on the planet. Moreover, she was facing some of the fastest women ever in 100m.

Jamaican sprinters have won four 100m titles in six editions of the World Championships, including a 1-2-3 sweep in Eugene last year. So following her incredible display, where does Richardson sit among the fastest women of all time?

Fastest women in 100m in history

Many track and road records have fallen in the last few years. Two records that have stood for decades are Florence Griffith-Joyner's 100m (10.49 seconds) and 200m (21.34 seconds) world records.

She set the 100m record at the 1988 U.S. Olympic trials in Indianapolis. Later that year, in September, at the Seoul Olympics, she set a 200m world record of 21.34 seconds.

Unfortunately, the American died at 38 after an epileptic seizure in 1998, per Time.

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No woman has broken the 10.5 barrier, but Jamaican Olympic champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah, came close. Last year, she clocked 10.54 seconds at the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon.

Flo-Jo's record will be broken at some point, eventually. Eliud Kipchoge broke the marathon's 2-hour barrier and Usain Bolt obliterated the men's 100m record, so maybe Richardson will break the record when she reaches her peak.

Richardson pays tribute to Fraser-Pryce

Sports Brief also reported on Richardson heaping praise on Fraser-Pryce after she won the 100m title world title.

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Speaking after the race, the American star acknowledged the Jamaican veteran's role in her young athletics career.

Fraser-Pryce has won everything in her career and given how her season had started, it was a stellar performance.