Jefferson-Wooden, Bednarek Capture Ultimate Wins and Could Have $300,000 Weekends
Jefferson-Wooden ran 10.62 seconds and Bednarek won in 9.85, each taking the $150,000 top prize.
- On Saturday, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the women's 100 meters at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest, clocking a world-leading 10.62 seconds to defeat Olympic champion Julien Alfred.
- Minutes later, American runner Kenny Bednarek secured an upset victory in the men's 100 meters, defeating Olympic champion Oblique Seville with a winning time of 9.85 seconds.
- Pole vault champion Sandi Morris, 400-meter winner Collen Kebinatshipi, and Diamond League victor Klaudia Kazimerska also secured wins in Budapest, with Kebinatshipi running 43.39 seconds.
- Each first-place finisher at the Ultimate Championship earned $150,000, the top prize for all winners competing this week in Budapest.
- Bednarek aims to double his prize earnings as a favorite in the 200 meters scheduled for Sunday, seeking another first-place finish.
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The series of the 100m at the beginning of the evening showed a fireworks fire in the final: in the first race, the American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden was in command in 10 seconds 73 while Olympic champion Julien Alfred won his series in the same time. But the flamboyant duel did not finally take place in the final. Jefferson-Wooden, 25 years old and triple world champion (100m, 200m, 4x100m) last year in Tokyo, came out of the starting blocks wi…
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Melissa Jefferson-Wooden ran a world-leading 10.62 seconds, blowing away Julien Alfred in the 100 metres at the Ultimate Championship on Saturday and winning the tiebreaker in a three-week, best-of-three series between the reigning Olympic and world champions.
Winnipeg Free Press
Jefferson-Wooden, Bednarek capture Ultimate wins and could have $300,000 weekends
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Melissa Jefferson-Wooden ran a world-leading 10.62 seconds, blowing away Julien Alfred in the 100 meters at the Ultimate Championship on Saturday and winning the tiebreaker in a three-week, best-of-three series between the reigning Olympic and world champions.
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