Sha'Carri Richardson fell short of winning both sprints at the world championships Friday when she took third behind winner Shericka Jackson and Gabby Thomas.
Sha’Carri Richardson won the 100-meter title at the world championships, but it didn’t set in until she saw her time — a meet-record 10.65 seconds.Just as in the 100, Richardson ran the 200 from the farthest outside lane, with all competitors to her left. Thomas was just to her inside in the eighth lane and Jackson, the reigning world champion, in the sixth lane.
Thomas entered with confidence after running this year’s world-leading time, a 21.60 clocking that won her the U.S. championship in July — mere hours after Jackson posted the previous world-leading time of 21.71. In all this season, Jackson had run 22.0 seconds or faster four times and Thomas three. By those measures, at least, Richardson settled into the blocks as more of an underdog than she had before the 100: Her lone sub-22 clocking of 21.94 was this year’s fourth-fastest.
At the halfway point Jackson had already taken control, passing in 11.05 seconds, with Thomas next-fastest in 11.20. Richardson was in fifth at that point but used a strong final straightaway to win the second medal of her first global championships.
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