The Sprint Sweep is complete for Melissa Jefferson-Wooden.
Two days after they have the 100m title on the US Track & Field Championships 2025The 24-year-old also captured the 200m Kroon and clocked a 21.84 personal record to overthrow a field that included Paris 2024 Olympic champion Gabby Thomas.
Anavia struggle Claimed second place with a 22.13, while Thomas was one of the three women who registered a 22.20, but was determined the bronze medal winner at photo assessment.
2023 World Source Medal Winner Sha’Carri Richardson Missed the final earlier in the day and finished only 0.01 seconds outside of a top nine times.
It was an important top-three finish for Thomas, who does not see you in September World Athletics Championships In Tokyo. They are only reserved for reigning world champions from 2023.
But the day – and the entire meeting – the Jefferson -Wooden, the bronze medal winner of Paris 2024 in the 100m that broke new terrain for itself on Sunday (3 August).
“It is something I worked towards,” she said about the sweep. “I spent so much time in my career away from how good I can be in the 200 and now I am starting to embrace that because I know that the more my times get faster in the 200, the more it will help my 100. So I really just embrace that whole feeling.”
More come.
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