Indirect Seville of Jamaica sprinted to a win within the males’s 100-meter on the 2025 World Monitor and Area Championships, upsetting reigning Olympic champion Noah Lyles.
On the ladies’s aspect, South Carolina native Melissa Jefferson-Picket set a championship-record time of 10.61 seconds to high the rostrum in Tokyo. It was the fourth-fastest time posted by a lady ever on the distrance.
Seville completed with a personal-best time of 9.77 seconds. His teammate, Kishane Thompson, was second at 9.82, whereas Lyles completed third at 9.89 seconds.
Lyles, who was hampered by a foot damage this spring, received the gold final summer season on the Paris Olympics in 9.79 seconds, beating Thompson in a photograph end. He’ll compete later this week within the 200m occasion, his specialty.
“It was a brief season with damage, not a whole lot of races below my belt,” Lyles stated. “However, hey, each time I confirmed up right here, I used to be working sooner and higher than I ever have. I used to be very excited with the issues that I noticed right this moment.”
The win by Seville was the primary within the occasion by a Jamaican since Usain Bolt within the 2016 Olympics.
Jefferson-Picket continued her stellar 2025 season having not misplaced a 100m race.
She was adopted by Tina Clayton of Jamaica, who ran a ten.76, whereas Olympic champion Julien Alfred of St. Lucia was third with a ten.84 time.
“I felt myself get out [ahead], then I blacked out after that, considering ‘get to the road’,” Jefferson-Picket instructed BBC Sport. “I noticed my time and it hit me, oh my gosh I received!
“I got here in as a hunter, I’ve by no means been a world champion or Olympic champion within the 100m. There will likely be a goal on my again subsequent yr so I am going to work out learn how to navigate that.”
American Sha’Carri Richardson, the defending world champion, completed fifth in 10.94.
—Area Stage Media/Reuters
