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With Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, the greatest sprinter of all time, watching, two current faces of the event scored their biggest wins yet Sunday at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won gold in the women’s 100-meter, running a championship-record 10.61 seconds to easily beat a loaded field that featured the entire podium from the Paris Olympics and cement her place as the new queen of the 100-meter. On the men’s side, Bolt’s countryman Oblique Seville surged past fellow Jamaican Kishane Thompson to win gold and get a long-anticipated breakthrough in a major race.
The win capped an undefeated year for Jefferson-Wooden, who first passed Sha’Carri Richardson as the clear American No. 1 and seemed destined to cash in with a world title this week. She left no doubt, pulling away halfway through the race and leaving a sizeable gap behind her at the finish line.
