BUDAPEST, Hungary — Sha’Carri Richardson runs the women’s 100-meter final at the first World Athletics Ultimate Championship on Saturday, a race that pays $150,000 to the winner and awards no medals to anyone.
The final is scheduled for 1:38 p.m. CT at the National Athletics Centre, on the same track where Richardson won the 2023 world title. Peacock and NBCSN carry the session, which begins at 11:08 a.m. CT and also holds the men’s and women’s 400-meter finals, the women’s pole vault, and the women’s javelin. Semifinals in the 100 run earlier in the evening.
The Sha’Carri Richardson Track At John Kincaide Stadium
Richardson is a native of South Dallas who was raised in Oak Cliff and attended Dallas ISD campuses from elementary school through Carter High School, where she won eight state sprint titles. The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees voted in October 2023 to name the track at John Kincaide Stadium after her. The City of Dallas declared Nov. 10, 2023, Sha’Carri Richardson Day. Signage went up 11 months later, unveiled at halftime of Carter’s football game against Wilmer-Hutchins on Sept. 20, 2024.
Richardson said at that ceremony that she started her career on the Kincaide track, and that people forget the city she comes from.
“But it shows that I have a responsibility to Dallas,” Richardson said, according to WFAA.
The track sits about a mile from Carter, inside the Jesse Owens Athletic Complex. Richardson spent one season at LSU, in 2018-19, winning the NCAA 100-meter title and setting a collegiate record of 10.75 seconds. That record stood until June, when Georgia’s Adaejah Hodge ran 10.63 in a preliminary heat in Eugene, Oregon. Hodge is not entered in Budapest.
Julien Alfred And Melissa Jefferson-Wooden Lead The Entry List
Richardson comes in with a season best of 10.77, third on the entry list behind Julien Alfred and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, who are tied at 10.70. She ran the 10.77 on July 24 at Icahn Stadium in New York, winning her third U.S. 100-meter title.
Automatic entry to the Ultimate Championship went to the Paris 2024 Olympic champions and the 2025 world champions from Tokyo. Richardson has neither title. She finished second in Paris in 10.87 behind Alfred, then placed fifth at the 2025 worlds in 10.94. Her invitation came through the world rankings, where she sat fourth. She announced it on her Instagram stories on Aug. 11.
Three years ago in this stadium, Richardson won the world 100-meter title in a championship record of 10.65 and anchored the United States to gold in the 4×100-meter relay.
Second place on Saturday pays $75,000 and no trophy. The meet distributes $10 million across 28 events over three nights, and winners receive a pewter-colored, torch-shaped award.
The championship closes Sunday with the 200-meter finals, airing on NBC and Peacock from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. CT.
