Melissa Jefferson-Wooden continued her perfect season over 100m, winning at the Brussels Diamond League in 10.76s.

The 24-year-old beat defending World Champion and 2024 Olympic silver medalist Sha’Carri Richardson, who finished second (11.08s).

Legendary Jamaican sprinter, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, was fourth in 11.17s.

The significance is a first career win, at the fourth attempt, for Jefferson-Wooden versus Fraser-Pryce.

She has beaten Richardson in all three of their meetings this season, and defeated Olympic champion Julien Alfred at the Pre Classic back in July.

It makes it nine straight 100m wins for Jefferson-Wooden in 2025, and 13 of 14 across all races — a third-place finish over 200m at the Florida Grand Slam Track meet is the only blot on her card.

Perhaps more significantly, it is yet another sub-11s clocking, and by a massive winning margin of more than 0.4s.

She led from the blocks, two-tenths up on Richardson and Fraser-Pryce by 60m, and closed the quickest in the field too.

“It feels good,” Jefferson-Wooden said in the mixed zone of having the tagline of favourite for World Championship gold. “I look at it as though I don’t have a target on my back.

I’m going in looking for a gold, I’ve never had one (individually) at a Championships — I’m going in as a hunter.”

“I’m making sure that each phase of my race is as consistent as possible, and then, when it’s time to put it all together, it looks like a good race.”

She only missed Elaine Thompson’s nine-year-old meet record of 10.72s by four tenths.

In warmer conditions and a following wind (they raced into a very marginal headwind), Jefferson-Wooden would have beaten it.

“My job as an athlete is to make sure I set myself up to be the best Melissa I can be — no matter the conditions.

I’ve ran into headwind this year, in 60-degree weather, it was a little cooler out there tonight.”

“Time-wise, sure, she definitely will be,” Fraser-Pryce said in the mixed zone, when asked about Jefferson-Wooden and the gold medal at next month’s World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

The American holds five of the six fastest wind-legal 100m times of any woman in 2025.

When asked in the pre-race press conference, Jefferson-Wooden said her aim is to turn her 100m bronze from last summer’s Olympics into World Championship gold.

The 24-year-old won over 100m and 200m at U.S. trials earlier this summer, the first women to do the national sprint double since Torri Edwards in 2003, two years after Jefferson-Wooden was born.

It means she can race 200m as well 100m (individually) at a global Championships for the first time, and has been a key member of the relay team since turning professional in 2022.

Should she wish, Jefferson-Wooden can try to emulate Carmelita Jeter next week at the Diamond League finals, in Zurich, Switzerland — Jeter was the last American woman to win over 100m at the Diamond League finals, also in 2011.