WCH Tokyo 25 facts and figures: women's 100m

Last three sets of World Athletics Championships medallists

2023: Sha'Carri Richardson (USA) – 10.65 (+0.1), Shericka Jackson (JAM) – 10.72, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) – 10.77
2022: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) – 10.67 (+0.8), Shericka Jackson (JAM) – 10.73, Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM) – 10.81
2019: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) – 10.71 (+0.1), Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) – 10.83, Marie Josée Ta Lou (CIV) – 10.90

Last two sets of Olympic medallists

2024: Julien Alfred (LCA) – 10.72 (-0.1), Sha’Carri Richardson (USA) – 10.87, Melissa Jefferson (USA) – 10.92
2020: Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM) – 10.61 (-0.6), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) – 10.74, Shericka Jackson (JAM) – 10.76

Fastest winning time in World Athletics Championships history

10.65 (+0.8) - Sha'Carri Richardson (USA), 2023
10.67 (+0.8) - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM), 2022
10.70 (-0.1)  - Marion Jones (USA), 1999

Slowest winning time in World Athletics Championships history

11.01 (-0.2) - Veronica Campbell (JAM), 2007

Best marks on Japanese soil

10.61 (-0.6) 1 Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM) - Tokyo (Olympics) 31.07.2021
10.73 (+0.3) 1SF Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) - Tokyo (Olympics) 31.07.2021
10.74 (-0.6) 2 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) - Tokyo (Olympics) 31.07.2021

Best marks on Asian soil

10.61 (-0.6) 1 Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM) - Tokyo (Olympics) 31.07.2021
10.62 (+1.0) 1QF Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) - Seoul (Olympics) 24.09.1988
10.64 (+1.2) 1 Carmelita Jeter (USA) - Shanghai 20.09.2009

10.54w (+3.0) 1 Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) - Seoul (Olympics) 25.09.1988

Biggest winning margins

0.22 – 2013: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) – 10.71, Murielle Ahouré (CIV) – 10.93
0.12 – 2019: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) – 10.71, Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) – 10.83
0.10 – 1987: Silke Gladisch (GDR) – 10.90, Heike Drechsler (GDR) – 11.00

​​Smallest winning margins

0.00 (0.001) – 1993: Gail Devers (USA) – 10.82, Merlene Ottey (JAM) – 10.82
0.00 (0.002) – 2007: Veronica Campbell (JAM) – 11.01, Lauryn Williams (USA) – 11.01
0.01 – 2017: Tori Bowie (USA) – 10.85, Marie-Josée Ta Lou (CIV) – 10.86

Best mark by round

Preliminary — 11.57 (−0.5) Delphine Atangana (CMR), 2011
Heat — 10.80 (−0.2) Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM), 2019
Quarterfinal — 10.76 (+0.3) Marion Jones (USA), 1999
Semifinal — 10.78w (+2.3) Merlene Ottey (JAM), 1991
Final — 10.65 (−0.2) Sha'Carri Richardson (USA), 2023

Multiple winners

1997/99 - Marion Jones (USA)
2009/13/15/19/22 - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

Winners by country

9 - United States
6 - Jamaica
2 - German Democratic Republic
1 - Germany
1 - Ukraine

Five historic facts

• Only four nations have won gold in the women’s 100m at the World Championships: USA (9), JAM (6), GDR/GER (3), UKR (1)
• The 1991 World Championships final in Tokyo was run into the strongest headwind recorded in championship history at -3.0 m/s.
• Shericka Jackson (JAM) holds the two fastest non-winning times in World Athletics Championships history: 10.73 in 2022, 10.72 in 2023.
• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) holds six of the 12 fastest times in World Championships history: 10.67, 10.71, 10.71, 10.73, 10.76, 10.77
• The 2023 World Athletics Championships final was the first nine-woman final in championship history after Ewa Swoboda (POL) and Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) were given identical times in the semifinals

​​Potential storylines

• Will the United States win the women’s 100m title for the 10th time in 20 editions?
• Can Olympic champion Julien Alfred (LCA) become the first non-American/non-Jamaican sprinter to win this title since Zhanna Pintusevich (UKR) in 2001?
• Can Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) win her seventh medal in the 100m? She won her first world medal on Japanese soil in the 4x100m in Osaka in 2007