Sha’Carri Richardson will headline the July event in the hope of successfully defending her title.
World 100m champion Sha’Carri Richardson is going back to Eugene the site where she has experienced both triumph and heartbreak in her career.
The 24-year-old Olympic silver medalist will race at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic, part of the Diamond League circuit, organisers announced Thursday February 20.
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The event is scheduled for July 5 at the historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Richardson, the sixth-fastest woman of all time and the fourth-fastest American in history, with a personal best of 10.72 seconds, is the defending champion in the 100m at the event, having clocked a 10.83 time in 2024 and finished second in 2022.
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Following a one-month suspension for failed dug test in 2921, Richardson returned to the track at the 2021 Prefontaine Classic, placing ninth – last place – with a time of 11.14 seconds.
Richardson was a member of the United States’ gold medal-winning 4x100m squad in Paris that comprised of Tamari Davis, Twanisha Terry, and Gabrielle Thomas. Richardson ran the race’s anchor leg; after a shaky handoff from Thomas, Richardson propelled the U.S. women from third place to first, clinching her first Olympic gold medal. Before crossing the finish line, Richardson turned her head to stare down her closest competitors in one of the game’s iconic moments.
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Sha’Carri Richardson recently set a challenge to internet sensation ‘IShowSpeed’ to train alongside her, after the streamer proposed a race with the Olympian when the pair met at the Super Bowl flag football game on February 8.
Watkins challenged Richardson to race against him, which she counteracted by asking the social media star to come along to her training camp.
Born in Dallas, Texas, Richardson is of African-American descent raised by her grandmother, Betty Harp.
