Sha'Carri Richardson vs Melissa Jefferson-Wooden Is On

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the Prefontaine Classic women's 100m in 10.78. Sha'Carri Richardson was second in 10.79. Adaejah Hodge was third in 10.80. The top three were separated by 0.02 seconds in a race that had been coming all season.

For the first time, we are getting both Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Sha'Carri Richardson at their best in the same race.

That hasn't been true before. Richardson's ascent from 2021 through her 2023 world title happened while MJW was still building. Jefferson-Wooden's emergence as the world number one across 2024 and 2025 came while Richardson was struggling — 2025 in particular was a difficult year for her. They've raced. They've been on relays together. They train under the same coach. But we haven't seen both of them at their sharpest at the same start line until Eugene.

Now we have.

In this video, we break down what Pre Classic told us about the state of the rivalry heading into the rest of 2026 and toward the 2027 World Championships.

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