Sha’Carri Richardson ran 10.77 seconds for 100 meters on Saturday at the Star Athletics Sprint Series in Florida, her fastest time at the distance in two years and a sharp turnaround after a quiet 2025.
The 26-year-old American hasn’t run that quickly since June 2022, when she clocked the same 10.77 to win the U.S. Olympic Trials. Saturday’s run lands her second on the 2026 world list behind the British Virgin Islands’ Adaejah Hodge, who set a national record of 10.63 in the preliminaries of the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, last weekend. Hodge served a 17-month doping ban that began in August 2024 after testing positive for a prohibited substance.
A Statement Race Against a Strong Field
Richardson lined up next to Shaunae Miller-Uibo, the two-time Olympic 400m champion who has been working her speed down to the shorter sprint. Miller-Uibo crossed the line in 11.05 for second place, in the third-fastest 100m of her career. Melicia Mouzzon finished third in 11.14.
Richardson won by a wide margin, and the time itself does most of the talking. She is one of only a handful of women alive to have broken 10.80, and Saturday’s clocking is well clear of anything she produced last year, including her silver medal performance at the Paris Olympics 100m final.
Back to Where She Wants to Be
2025 was a hard year for Richardson by her own standards. She broke 11 seconds just once across the whole outdoor campaign and finished fifth in the 100m final at the World Athletics Championships in 10.94. The title went to her compatriot Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, who ran a stunning 10.61.
Her 2026 has opened differently. A week before Florida, Richardson won the 100m at the LA Grand Prix in 10.99, ahead of Kayla White (11.08) and Tamari Davis (11.11). Saturday’s 10.77 builds on that, and it lands at a useful point in the season, with the world championship rounds and the bigger Diamond League meetings still ahead.
For a sprinter whose ceiling has always been one of the highest in the field, the question through 2025 was whether she could find the form that produced her 2023 world title. The answer in Florida came in 10.77 seconds, a time most 100m runners only encounter on a record board.
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