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01-06-2025
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Melissa Jefferson-Wooden runs historic 100m time at Grand Slam Track Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — Melissa Jefferson-Wooden moved into a tie for 10th place on the all-time women's 100m list by running 10.73 seconds at a Grand Slam Track meet Sunday. Jefferson-Wooden, the Olympic 100m bronze medalist, improved her previous best time of 10.80 from the 2024 Olympic Trials. Now she's tied as the 10th-fastest woman in history globally, the fifth-fastest American ever and the second-fastest active American behind training partner Sha'Carri Richardson (personal best 10.65). Jefferson-Wooden also ran a personal best in the 200m on Saturday, clocking 21.99 and winning that race over Olympic 200m gold medalist Gabby Thomas. GRAND SLAM TRACK: Full Results The Grand Slam Track season concludes with the fourth meet in Los Angeles the last weekend of June, live on Peacock. In other events Sunday, Kenny Bednarek won the men's 100m in 9.86 seconds, shaving one hundredth off his personal best and matching the world's best time this year. Bednarek, a two-time Olympic 200m silver medalist, is the only man or woman to go 6-0 in races through the first three Grand Slams. Jamaican Ackera Nugent completed a sweep of the 100m hurdles and flat 100m by clocking 11.11 seconds in Sunday's flat race in the short hurdles group. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was runner-up in 11.21 against a field of 100m hurdles specialists. It marked her first flat 100m race since 2018, when she ran a wind-aided 11.07 as a University of Kentucky freshman. McLaughlin-Levrone, who won the 400m hurdles and flat 400m at the first two Slams, is likely to switch to the 200m/400m group for the last Slam in Los Angeles. She expects to race either the flat 400m or the 400m hurdles at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships in August, where she will bid to make the team for September's World Championships in Tokyo. In Sunday's 1500m, Josh Kerr overtook Cole Hocker in the final straightaway in a duel between the Olympic silver and gold medalists. Kerr crossed the finish line all the way out in lane six in 3:34:44, while Hocker in lane five was seven hundredths behind. Hocker has finished second, third, third, third, third and second in his six 1500m races since winning Olympic gold in Paris. Nick Zaccardi,
NBC Sports
04-05-2025
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Kenny Bednarek, Alison dos Santos unbeaten in Grand Slam Track
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Kenny Bednarek and Alison dos Santos are the only runners to win their first four races through the first two Grand Slam Track meets. McLaughlin-Levrone completed her second consecutive 400m-400m hurdles group sweep on Sunday, taking the flat 400m in 49.69 seconds at Grand Slam Track Miami. On Saturday, she won the 400m hurdles in 52.07, the fastest time ever run before the month of June. McLaughlin-Levrone has won 12 consecutive 400m hurdles finals dating to her last defeat at the 2019 World Championships, breaking the world record six times in that span to bring it down from 52.16 to 50.37. GRAND SLAM TRACK: Full Results McLaughlin-Levrone said after the first Grand Slam Track in Kingston, Jamaica last month that she was looking at switching events for the next Grand Slam in Philadelphia (May 30-June 1, live on Peacock), running the 100m and 100m hurdles instead of the 400m and 400m hurdles. McLaughlin-Levrone last raced the 100m in 2018 at age 18 — 11.07 seconds with heavy tailwind of 3.5 meters per second. The world's fastest woman can run under 11 seconds with no tailwind. McLaughlin-Levrone has run the 100m hurdles a little more frequently with a best time of 12.65. The world's top women can break 12.50. McLaughlin-Levrone could face some of them in Philadelphia, including Paris Olympic gold medalist Masai Russell, who on Friday ran the second-fastest time in history — 12.17 seconds. Also Sunday, Kenny Bednarek, the two-time Olympic 200m silver medalist, stayed undefeated in the 100m-200m sprints group with a 200m victory in 19.84, the world's best time this year. 'I'm going to be dominant this year,' Bednarek said on the broadcast. Brazil's Alison dos Santos won the 400m in 44.53, a personal best by one hundredth, to sweep the men's 400m-400m hurdles group, just as he did in Kingston last month. Nick Zaccardi,
