Danielle Williams of Jamaica has won the women’s 100-metre hurdles title at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Williams crossed the finish line in 12.43 seconds, with Jasmine Camacho-Quinn following in 12.44s for silver and Keni Harrison taking the bronze in 12.46s.
The reigning world champion and Commonwealth Games two-time champion, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, finished in sixth position, crossing the line in 12.62.
Eight years after her first World Athletics Championship 100m hurdles gold, Williams returned to the top of the podium with a sensational performance in Budapest.
It was quite an upset as she also produced a season’s best during the star-studded final on August 24.
Coming into the event, Amusan – who holds the world record of 12.12s from last year’s edition – had been tipped to make a podium finish.
A statement from World Athletics, per Olympics, claimed even camera crews did not seem to think Williams had crossed the line first, focusing instead on Olympic champion, Camacho-Quinn.
However, when Williams’s 12.43 seconds was confirmed – 0.01 ahead of Camacho-Quinn – the many Jamaican fans in the stadium erupted along with the 2015 and now 2023 world champion, who claimed her country’s first gold in Hungary this year.
