Sha’Carri Richardson wins the United States championship in the 100 meters

American sprint star Sha’Carri Richardson claimed the US Championships 100m title, two years after the national title was stripped due to a doping violation.

The 23-year-old won Friday night’s race in 10.82 seconds, beating Brittany Brown (10.90) and Tamari Davis (10.99).

After her victory, she admitted in a television interview that she was not ready for the moment at the 2021 Olympic Trials, where, shortly after her victory, she tested positive for marijuana use.

“Now, I’m here with you again and I’m ready, mentally, physically and emotionally,” said the 23-year-old, who ran in her natural black tresses with a star shaved into the right side of her hairstyle. “I’m here to say: ‘I’m not back, I’m better.’

Richardson looked ready at the starting line. He took off his trademark orange wig and tossed it to the ground.

Richardson celebrates after winning the women’s 100m in 10.82 at Hayward Field on Friday

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She will be at the world championships next month, marking her first major international meeting.

Moments after Richardson’s victory, Cravont Charleston produced an upset in the men’s 100m, finishing in 9.95 to edge out 2019 world champion Christian Coleman by .01. It was the 25-year-old Charleston’s first final in a major game and he made the most of it.

“Win,” said Charleston when asked what his goal is for his first world championship. ‘Of course, to win. That is the goal. Always to win.

Noah Lyles finished third, just four days after overcoming a bout of COVID. He will go for a double in the world championships, his place in his flagship event, the 200, already secured because he is the defending world champion.

“I had this dream that I could do that double,” Lyles said.

He is one of 10 American athletes, including Fred Kerley (100), Athing Mu (800) and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (400 hurdles) defending the world title and have automatic bids to meet in Budapest, Hungary next month. On Friday, McLaughlin-Levrone ran 49.60 in the 400 flat to win the semifinal in that event by 1.4 seconds.

Among the biggest questions of the summer is what McLaughlin-Levrone will do in Budapest.

But this week has mostly been about Richardson, who hasn’t looked in such great shape since the 2021 Olympic Trials, when she defeated the field, only to have the result vacated when her drug test came back positive.

He took off his trademark orange wig and tossed it to the ground before winning the sprint race.

Moments after Richardson’s win, Cravont Charleston made an impact in the men’s 100m.

He admitted that he used marijuana to relieve stress after learning that his mother had died. That episode sparked a debate about whether marijuana really should be on the banned list.

Officials opted to leave it on the list because experts determined it was “against the spirit of the sport.”

Richardson posted the best time of the year, 10.71, on Thursday in the opening heats, but will leave Eugene with only the second fastest time of the week in the world’s 100m. A few hours before Richardson’s final, Shericka Jackson won the Jamaican championships with a time of 10.65 seconds, making Jackson and Richardson the fastest contenders in the worlds.

Other winners on Friday included Anna Hall in the heptathlon, Harrison Williams in the decathlon, Vashti Cunningham in the women’s high jump and Donald Scott in the men’s triple jump.

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