Melissa Jefferson-Wooden ’s Tokyo triumph at the 2025 World Athletics Championships turned heads. She blasted a 10.61 to win gold, shattered the championship best, and has taken over the all-time list as the fourth fastest sprinter, beating a stacked field by 0.15s. Even though this performance ruled in every way, Jefferson-Wooden thinks that a slight tweak in the conditions would have given her a better edge that would have placed her even higher up in the list.

Following her big win, Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson interviewed Jefferson-Wooden on the newest episode of Nightcap . And that’s where the 100m champion weighed in on the possibility of her becoming the fastest woman in the world. That record is held by Florence Griffith Joyner , who ran 100m in just 10.49 seconds i

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