10.75! LSU Freshman Sha’Carri Richardson Arrives As a Star With Insane Collegiate 100m Record
By LetsRun.com
June 8, 2019
AUSTIN, Tex. — Sha’Carri Richardson has arrived.
The 19-year-old LSU freshman entered the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships with impressive sprint credentials — a 10.99 pb, SEC champ in the 100 and 200 — but will leave it as the world’s next great sprint phenom, smoking a 10.75 collegiate record to break the 30-year-old collegiate record of LSU’s Dawn Sowell.
Usain Bolt comparisons are massively overused in track & field, but it was impossible to watch this race and not think of Bolt’s 100-meter world record in the 2008 Olympic final. It wasn’t just that both athletes obliterated the field over the final 40 meters, but how easy both made it look; Richardson’s celebrations didn’t start quite as early as Bolt’s in Beijing, but with five meters to go, she had already thrown up her hands in celebration.
Richardson won by daylight
She had plenty to celebrate. Not only was the time a humongous personal best — from 10.99 to 10.75 in a single race — but it ranks as the fastest time in the world in two years, since the 10.71 by Olympic champ Elaine Thompson in June 2017. The 2018 world lead of 10.85, shared by Dina Asher-Smith and Marie-Josee Ta Lou, was a full tenth of a second slower than what Richardson ran today. Richardson is now tied as the ninth-fastest performer of all time; the time is also a world U20 record, breaking the 42-year-old mark of 10.88 by East Germany’s Marlies Oelsner.
Forty-five minutes later, Richardson got world U20 record #2, running 22.17 for 200 meters to break the record of the great Allyson Felix (22.18) set in 2004. That was only good enough for second, however, as Richardson was outleaned by USC’s Anglerne Annelus, who repeated as NCAA champion in 22.16, a 2019 world leader.
Prior to her individual races, Richardson gave a warning of what was to come when she anchored LSU to a second-place showing in the 4×100 relay at 42.29, making up a massive amount of distance on USC anchor Twanisha Terry, who would run a quick 10.98 in the open 100.
Videos of the races appear below. Below that we have post-race interviews with the top 3 finishers in the 100. Then results.
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Video of 100
SHA'CARRI RICHARDSON!!!!! 1️⃣0️⃣:7️⃣5️⃣
WORLD JUNIOR RECORD ✅
WORLD LEADER ✅
COLLEGIATE RECORD ✅
SCHOOL RECORD ✅ pic.twitter.com/n91WHBdCty— NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) June 8, 2019
Video of 200
It's all about the lean!
Angie Annelus goes ?2️⃣? as the #ncaaTF 200m Champion with a WORLD LEADING 2️⃣2️⃣:1️⃣7️⃣
No. 4️⃣ ALL-TIME COLLEGIATE pic.twitter.com/xDC7VYv9gD
— NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) June 9, 2019
Video of 4 x 100
4️⃣2️⃣.2️⃣1️⃣ ✌️
USC with a Collegiate Lead and a #ncaaTF ? pic.twitter.com/fNdGaWyDfy
— NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) June 8, 2019
Post-race interview with Richardson
Interview with runner-up Kayla White of North Carolina A&T
USC’s TeeTee Terry after taking third in a pb of 10.98
Results 100
| Place | Athlete | Affiliation | Time | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Sha’Carri RICHARDSON | FR | LSU | 10.75 | +1.6 | 0.142 | PB FR MR CB | ||||
| 2 |  |
Kayla WHITE | SR | N. Carolina A&T | 10.95 | +1.6 | 0.159 | PB | ||||
| 3 |  |
Twanisha TERRY | SO | USC | 10.98 | +1.6 | 0.149 | PB | ||||
| 4 |  |
Teahna DANIELS | SR | Texas | 11.00 | +1.6 | 0.160 | |||||
| 5 |  |
Kiara PARKER | SR | Arkansas | 11.02 | +1.6 | 0.168 | PB | ||||
| 6 |  |
Kiara GRANT | SO | Norfolk State | 11.04 | +1.6 | 0.172 | PB | ||||
| 7 | |
Anglerne ANNELUS | JR | USC | 11.12 | +1.6 | 0.198 | |||||
| 8 |  |
Ka’Tia SEYMOUR | SO | Florida State | 11.65 | +1.6 | 0.129 |
Results 200
| Place | Athlete | Affiliation | Time | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |
Anglerne ANNELUS | JR | USC | 22.16 | +1.3 | 0.233 | PB FR | ||||
| 2 | |
Sha’Carri RICHARDSON | FR | LSU | 22.17 | +1.3 | 0.179 | PB | ||||
| 3 | |
Cambrea STURGIS | FR | N. Carolina A&T | 22.40 (22.394) | +1.3 | 0.160 | PB | ||||
| 4 | |
Janeek BROWN | SO | Arkansas | 22.40 (22.396) | +1.3 | 0.151 | PB | ||||
| 5 | |
Teahna DANIELS | SR | Texas | 22.62 | +1.3 | 0.166 | |||||
| 6 | |
Lanae-Tava THOMAS | FR | USC | 22.74 | +1.3 | 0.176 | PB | ||||
| 7 | |
Kayla WHITE | SR | N. Carolina A&T | 22.81 | +1.3 | 0.168 | |||||
|
Ka’Tia SEYMOUR | SO | Florida State | DNS |
Results 4 x 100
| Place | Team | Time | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |
USC | USC | 42.21 | 0.229 | SB FR | ||||||
| 2 | |
LSU | LSU | 42.29 | 0.149 | SB | ||||||
| 3 | |
ARKANSAS | Arkansas | 42.79 | 0.181 | |||||||
| 4 |  |
OREGON | Oregon | 42.99 | 0.280 | SB | ||||||
| 5 |  |
ALABAMA | Alabama | 43.00 | 0.187 | SB | ||||||
| 6 | |
N. CAROLINA A&T | N. Carolina A&T | 43.09 | 0.197 | |||||||
| 7 | |
FLORIDA STATE | Florida State | 43.13 | 0.255 | SB | ||||||
| 8 | |
TEXAS | Texas | 43.69 | 0.225 |