TOKYO (AP/WMBF) - Melissa Jefferson-Wooden can call herself the fastest woman in the world.

Jefferson-Wooden romped to win in a women’s sprint that featured a newcomer silver medalist in Jamaica’s Tina Clayton, a fond farewell for the island country’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who finished sixth, and a fifth-place finish from Sha’Carri Richardson, who never found her stride this year.

“It’s a changing of the guard, in a sense,” Jefferson-Wooden said. “You’re going to see some new faces and things like that. It’s great competition.”

The 24-year-old Jefferson-Wooden turned the Sunday night race in Tokyo into a laugher right away.

She got about a step ahead of Olympic champion Julien Alfred in the lane next to her, then kept expanding her lead and ran hard through the line when she could h

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