The women's 100 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 13 and 14 September 2025.

Summary After taking silver in the Olympics, defending champion Sha'Carri Richardson's 2025 season was more dominated by off-track drama than on-track results. With a bye, she didn't need to demonstrate her fitness in early season races. The world leader was Melissa Jefferson-Wooden who ran off a series of sub 10.8 performances topped off by her 10.65 at the US Championships which tied her for #5 of all time. Her closest challenger looked to be Olympic Champion Julien Alfred, who would have had an undefeated season save her loss to Jefferson-Wooden at the Prefontaine Classic.

In the first three heats, only Jefferson-Wooden dipped under 11 seconds. In the fourth heat, Alfred ran a 10.93 as the fastest qualifier. Daryll Neita was the only other one under 11 seconds. She would, however, not get out of the semis, finishing fourth in the first semi behind now Masters athlete Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith, Shericka Jackson (who was also tied for #5 all time) and Richardson's season best 11.00. Alfred dominated the second semi with another 10.93 ahead of another Masters athlete, five time champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (#3 all time) making her eighth World Championship final. Then Jefferson-Wooden blew apart the third semi final with a 10.73, ahead of Tina Clayton's 10.90 and final time qualifier Dina Asher-Smith. With Alfred and Ta Lou-Smith tied for #9 on the all-time list, the final would feature six of the top ten fastest women of all time.

In the final, Jefferson-Wooden was out fast. Only Clayton seemed in a position to challenge, Jefferson-Wooden stayed focused on the finish line separating from the field. Clearly behind them, Alfred won the battle for third finishing .04 ahead of Jackson, while Richardson's season best 10.94 was only good enough for fifth.

Jefferson-Wooden's personal best 10.61 moved her past Carmelita Jeter into sole possession of the #4 time ever, breaking Richardson's Championship Record. Clayton's 10.76 moved her to a tie for #15 of all time. At 21, she is one of the youngest medalist in the history of the event.

Records Before the competition records were as follows: RecordAthlete & LocationDate World Record 10.49 Indianapolis, United States 16 July 1988 Championship Record 10.65 Budapest, Hungary 21 August 2023 World Leading 10.65Eugene, United States 1 August 2025 African Record 10.72 Fontvieille, Monaco 10 August 2022 Asian Record 10.79 Shanghai, China 18 October 1997 European Record 10.73 Budapest, Hungary 19 August 1998 North, Central American and Caribbean Record 10.49 Indianapolis, United States 16 July 1988 Oceanian Record 10.94 Ostrava, Czech Republic 25 June 2025 South American Record 10.91 London, United Kingdom 6 August 2017

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 11.07.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows: Date Time Round 13 September 18:55 Heats14 September 20:20 Semi-finals22:13 Final

Results Heats The heats took place on 13 September. The first three athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next three fastest ( q ) qualified for the semi-finals.

Heat 1 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 6 Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 10.99 2 7 Zoe Hobbs 11.16 3 4 Géraldine Frey 11.25 4 5 Sade McCreath 11.41 5 3 Lisa Mayer 11.45 6 8 Bree Rizzo 11.45 7 9 Julia Henriksson 11.49 8 1 Valentina Meredova 12.13 9 2 Lujain Ibrahim Al-Humaid 12.68 Wind:

Heat 2 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 5 Tina Clayton 11.01 2 6 Dina Asher-Smith 11.07 3 4 Ewa Swoboda 11.18 4 1 Rani Rosius 11.25 5 7 Rosemary Chukwuma 11.27 6 3 Lorène Bazolo 11.34 7 8 Karolína Maňasová 11.37 8 2 Fayza Issaka Abdoukerim 12.00 9 9 Estelle Short 12.55 Wind:

Heat 3 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 7 Sha'Carri Richardson 11.03 , 2 5 Shericka Jackson 11.04 3 8 Torrie Lewis 11.08 , 4 6 Gina Lückenkemper 11.12 5 4 Anthaya Charlton 11.18 6 3 Herverge Etame Kole 11.55 7 2 Pierrick-Linda Moulin 11.58 8 9 Natacha Ngoye 11.88 Wind:

Heat 4 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 6 Julien Alfred 10.93 2 3 Salomé Kora 11.23 3 5 Audrey Leduc 11.26 4 9 Polyniki Emmanouilidou 11.36 5 4 Camille Rutherford 11.40 6 7 Maboundou Koné 11.42 7 8 Marlet Ospino 11.63 8 2 Nyasha Harris 12.25 9 1 Chloe David 12.40 Wind:

Heat 5 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 5 Daryll Neita 10.94 , 2 4 Twanisha Terry 11.06 3 7 Thelma Davies 11.12 4 6 Boglárka Takács 11.12 5 3 Ana Carolina Azevedo 11.24 6 8 Liang Xiaojing 11.29 7 2 Ella Connolly 11.43 8 1 Alessandra Gasparelli 11.78 — 9 Alisar Youssef Wind:

Heat 6 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Zaynab Dosso 11.10 2 7 Amy Hunt 11.13 3 5 Kayla White 11.16 4 6 Leah Bertrand 11.29 5 8 Destiny Smith-Barnett 11.33 6 3 Viktória Forster 11.43 7 2 Edna Ngandula 11.59 8 1 Rori Lowe 11.93 9 9 Gorete Semedo 11.98 Wind:

Heat 7 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith 11.05 2 6 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 11.09 3 5 Liranyi Alonso 11.26 4 7 Patrizia Van der Weken 11.29 5 3 Sina Mayer 11.41 6 8 Gladymar Torres 11.52 7 2 Tri-Tania Lowe 11.59 8 9 María Ignacia Montt 11.68 Wind:

Semi-finals The heats took place on 14 September. The first two athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final.

Heat 1 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith 10.94 2 7 Shericka Jackson 10.97 3 6 Sha'Carri Richardson 11.00 , 4 5 Daryll Neita 11.06 5 9 Liranyi Alonso 11.16 6 3 Kayla White 11.20 7 8 Salomé Kora 11.30 8 2 Boglárka Takács 11.32 Wind:

Heat 2 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Julien Alfred 10.93 2 5 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 11.00 3 7 Amy Hunt 11.05 4 6 Twanisha Terry 11.07 5 3 Zoe Hobbs 11.09 6 2 Anthaya Charlton 11.14 7 9 Géraldine Frey 11.34 8 8 Ewa Swoboda 11.36 Wind:

Heat 3 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 6 Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 10.73 2 5 Tina Clayton 10.90 3 4 Dina Asher-Smith 11.02 4 2 Gina Lückenkemper 11.11 5 8 Torrie Lewis 11.14 6 7 Zaynab Dosso 11.22 7 3 Thelma Davies 11.24 8 9 Audrey Leduc 11.34 Wind:

Final Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 4 Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 10.61 , , 6 Tina Clayton 10.76 5 Julien Alfred 10.84 4 3 Shericka Jackson 10.88 = 5 2 Sha'Carri Richardson 10.94 6 8 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 11.03 7 7 Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith 11.04 8 9 Dina Asher-Smith 11.08 Wind:

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