Andre Lowe sports journalist

Wow, what a race!

Sha’Carri Richardson, 10.65 seconds and a championships record, delivered a powerful run from lane nine to reel in her opponents after a trademark lousy start.

Shericka Jackson, the favourite for most, clocked a very impressive 10.72 seconds for silver with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who was almost running on one leg, securing a golden bronze in a season’s best 10.77 seconds in what was only her fifth 100m race this season.

I know a lot of Jamaicans are disappointed that the gold medal is going elsewhere but take nothing away from the gifted American; that was a super run.

Given her performances this year, it’s certainly not surprising that Sha’Carri won. It was only left to be seen how she would deal with the pressure and she proved herself here.

It sets up an intriguing rivalry ahead of the Olympics in 2024 and the next World Championships in 2025.

Trishana McGowan broadcast journalist

I am extremely elated, literally beaming with joy at the performances from the women. Sha’Carri’s win is definitely not a surprise based on her season, but I’m thrilled she was able to get the win and in a championship record.

Our women were just as remarkable to finish on the podium and we must be proud. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is such a beast, at 36 years old in a field of young talents, she walked away with bronze.

Donald Smith international athletic commentator

My medal predictions prior to the start of the championships would have tentatively given Jamaica two medals in the women’s 100m. Maybe one colour was expected to be different, but nonetheless, we got two.

I am not surprised by Sha’Carri Richardson’s win; if you followed her performances this season you would have realised that she was in a much better place than the previous two seasons, producing results similar to when she was at Louisiana State University (LSU). Her results saw her defeating Shericka Jackson the two times she faced her over 100m before Budapest. So even though we were hoping for Jackson or Fraser-Pryce to find something special in Budapest, you would have written off Sha’Carri to your own peril.

Yes, she had a poor semi-final, but the lane 9 isolation meant she didn’t have the pressure of being in the mix with the other heavyweights and could therefore focus on running her own race. It was a brilliant execution of tremendous top-end speed to reel in both Jackson and Fraser-Pryce.

I was hoping that Fraser-Pryce could have done what Poland’s Hammer thrower PaweÅ‚ Fajdek wasn’t able to, which was to equal the legendary Ukranian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka’s 6 World Championships gold medals in a single event. But it wasn’t to be.

Overall, this was one of the greatest women’s 100m of all time. The fastest ever! The 10.65s is a new CR that breaks Fraser-Pryce’s time (10.67s) done in Eugene last year. It was also the third time that six or more ladies ran sub-11s in a final.

Daveon Nugent sports producer

I am a bit disappointed, my sources had said Shericka Jackson was in fantastic shape coming into the championships and with her running 10.65 seconds to win the 100m title at the Jamaican trials and then defeating Ta Lou and Richardson in the semi-finals, she seemed poised to win the world 100m title at the World Championships.

The colloquial saying “pressure buss pipe” seemed to have applied to Richardson in her semi-finals, where she finished third in 10.84 resulting in her being placed in lane 9.

However, these disappointments seemed to have lifted the pressure of expectation off her shoulders coming into the finals. This allowed her to run freely and ultimately outran the field in the last 10 metres with a fantastic burst of speed. I congratulate Richardson, she has faced down her demons and emerged victorious as the 2023 world champion at 100m. It is now left up to the Jamaican contingent to pick up the pieces and get the hunt for gold back on track.