2025 World Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
Venue	National Stadium
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	13 September (heats) 14 September (semi-finals & final)
Competitors	61 from 44 nations
Winning time	10.61 CR
Medalists
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden    United States   Tina Clayton    Jamaica   Julien Alfred    Saint Lucia
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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. ^[1]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[2]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World Record	Florence Griffith Joyner  (USA)	10.49	Indianapolis, United States	16 July 1988
Championship Record	Sha'Carri Richardson  (USA)	10.65	Budapest, Hungary	21 August 2023
World Leading	Melissa Jefferson-Wooden  (USA)	10.65	Eugene, United States	1 August 2025
African Record	Marie-Josée Ta Lou  (CIV)	10.72	Fontvieille, Monaco	10 August 2022
Asian Record	Xuemei Li  (CHN)	10.79	Shanghai, China	18 October 1997
European Record	Christine Arron  (FRA)	10.73	Budapest, Hungary	19 August 1998
North, Central American and Caribbean Record	Florence Griffith Joyner  (USA)	10.49	Indianapolis, United States	16 July 1988
Oceanian Record	Zoe Hobbs  (NZL)	10.94	Ostrava, Czech Republic	25 June 2025
South American Record	Rosângela Santos  (BRA)	10.91	London, United Kingdom	6 August 2017

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 11.07. ^[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows: ^[1]

Date	Time	Round
13 September	18:55	Heats
14 September	20:20	Semi-finals
	22:13	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	United States  (USA)	10.99	Q
2	7	Zoe Hobbs	New Zealand  (NZL)	11.16	Q
3	4	Géraldine Frey	Switzerland  (SUI)	11.25	Q
4	5	Sade McCreath	Canada  (CAN)	11.41
5	3	Lisa Mayer	Germany  (GER)	11.45
6	8	Bree Rizzo	Australia  (AUS)	11.45
7	9	Julia Henriksson	Sweden  (SWE)	11.49
8	1	Valentina Meredova	Turkmenistan  (TKM)	12.13
9	2	Lujain Ibrahim Al-Humaid	Saudi Arabia  (KSA)	12.68
				Wind: (−0.9 m/s)

Heat 2

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Tina Clayton	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.01	Q
2	6	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.07	Q
3	4	Ewa Swoboda	Poland  (POL)	11.18	Q
4	1	Rani Rosius	Belgium  (BEL)	11.25	SB
5	7	Rosemary Chukwuma	Nigeria  (NGR)	11.27
6	3	Lorène Bazolo	Portugal  (POR)	11.34
7	8	Karolína Maňasová	Czech Republic  (CZE)	11.37
8	2	Fayza Issaka Abdoukerim	Togo  (TOG)	12.00
9	9	Estelle Short	Cook Islands  (COK)	12.55	SB
				Wind: (−0.4 m/s)

Heat 3

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Sha'Carri Richardson	United States  (USA)	11.03	Q, SB
2	5	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.04	Q
3	8	Torrie Lewis	Australia  (AUS)	11.08	Q, NR
4	6	Gina Lückenkemper	Germany  (GER)	11.12	q
5	4	Anthaya Charlton	Bahamas  (BAH)	11.18	q
6	3	Herverge Etame Kole	Cameroon  (CMR)	11.55
7	2	Pierrick-Linda Moulin	Gabon  (GAB)	11.58
8	9	Natacha Ngoye	Congo  (CGO)	11.88
				Wind: (−0.8 m/s)

Heat 4

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	6	Julien Alfred	Saint Lucia  (LCA)	10.93	Q
2	3	Salomé Kora	Switzerland  (SUI)	11.23	Q
3	5	Audrey Leduc	Canada  (CAN)	11.26	Q
4	9	Polyniki Emmanouilidou	Greece  (GRE)	11.36
5	4	Camille Rutherford	Bahamas  (BAH)	11.40
6	7	Maboundou Koné	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	11.42
7	8	Marlet Ospino	Colombia  (COL)	11.63
8	2	Nyasha Harris	Belize  (BIZ)	12.25
9	1	Chloe David	Vanuatu  (VAN)	12.40	PB
				Wind: (±0.0 m/s)

Heat 5

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Daryll Neita	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	10.94	Q, SB
2	4	Twanisha Terry	United States  (USA)	11.06	Q
3	7	Thelma Davies	Liberia  (LBR)	11.12	Q
4	6	Boglárka Takács	Hungary  (HUN)	11.12	q
5	3	Ana Carolina Azevedo	Brazil  (BRA)	11.24
6	8	Liang Xiaojing	China  (CHN)	11.29
7	2	Ella Connolly	Australia  (AUS)	11.43
8	1	Alessandra Gasparelli	San Marino  (SMR)	11.78
—	9	Alisar Youssef	Syria  (SYR)	DNS
				Wind: (+0.5 m/s)

Heat 6

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Zaynab Dosso	Italy  (ITA)	11.10	Q
2	7	Amy Hunt	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.13	Q
3	5	Kayla White	United States  (USA)	11.16	Q
4	6	Leah Bertrand	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	11.29
5	8	Destiny Smith-Barnett	Liberia  (LBR)	11.33
6	3	Viktória Forster	Slovakia  (SVK)	11.43
7	2	Edna Ngandula	Zambia  (ZAM)	11.59	PB
8	1	Rori Lowe	Honduras  (HON)	11.93	NR
9	9	Gorete Semedo	São Tomé and Príncipe  (STP)	11.98
				Wind: (−0.1 m/s)

Heat 7

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	11.05	Q
2	6	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.09	Q
3	5	Liranyi Alonso	Dominican Republic  (DOM)	11.26	Q
4	7	Patrizia Van der Weken	Luxembourg  (LUX)	11.29
5	3	Sina Mayer	Germany  (GER)	11.41
6	8	Gladymar Torres	Puerto Rico  (PUR)	11.52
7	2	Tri-Tania Lowe	Anguilla  (AIA)	11.59
8	9	María Ignacia Montt	Chile  (CHI)	11.68
				Wind: (−0.4 m/s)

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	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	10.94	Q
2	7	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica  (JAM)	10.97	Q
3	6	Sha'Carri Richardson	United States  (USA)	11.00	q, SB
4	5	Daryll Neita	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.06
5	9	Liranyi Alonso	Dominican Republic  (DOM)	11.16
6	3	Kayla White	United States  (USA)	11.20
7	8	Salomé Kora	Switzerland  (SUI)	11.30
8	2	Boglárka Takács	Hungary  (HUN)	11.32
				Wind: (−0.3 m/s)

Heat 2

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Julien Alfred	Saint Lucia  (LCA)	10.93	Q
2	5	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.00	Q
3	7	Amy Hunt	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.05
4	6	Twanisha Terry	United States  (USA)	11.07
5	3	Zoe Hobbs	New Zealand  (NZL)	11.09
6	2	Anthaya Charlton	Bahamas  (BAH)	11.14
7	9	Géraldine Frey	Switzerland  (SUI)	11.34
8	8	Ewa Swoboda	Poland  (POL)	11.36
				Wind: (+0.1 m/s)

Heat 3

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	6	Melissa Jefferson-Wooden	United States  (USA)	10.73	Q
2	5	Tina Clayton	Jamaica  (JAM)	10.90	Q
3	4	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.02	q
4	2	Gina Lückenkemper	Germany  (GER)	11.11
5	8	Torrie Lewis	Australia  (AUS)	11.14
6	7	Zaynab Dosso	Italy  (ITA)	11.22
7	3	Thelma Davies	Liberia  (LBR)	11.24
8	9	Audrey Leduc	Canada  (CAN)	11.34
				Wind: (+0.2 m/s)

Final

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Melissa Jefferson-Wooden	United States  (USA)	10.61	CR , PB
	6	Tina Clayton	Jamaica  (JAM)	10.76	PB
	5	Julien Alfred	Saint Lucia  (LCA)	10.84
4	3	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica  (JAM)	10.88	=SB
5	2	Sha'Carri Richardson	United States  (USA)	10.94	SB
6	8	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Jamaica  (JAM)	11.03
7	7	Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	11.04
8	9	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	11.08
				Wind: (+0.3 m/s)

References

1. "Timetable - Tokyo 25 - World Athletics Championship - Women 100 Metres". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
2. "100 Metres Women − Records". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
3. "World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 – Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025.