Melissa Jefferson-Wooden
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Melissa Jefferson-Wooden is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 meters and 200 m. A five-time World Champion, she won three world titles at the 2025 World Championships, captu
Jefferson in the 4 × 100 m at the 2024 World Athletics Relays
Jefferson (right) and her training partner, Twanisha Terry (left), at the 2024 US Olympic trials
The 2025 World Athletics Championships were the twentieth edition of the World Athletics Championships, and were held from 13 to 21 September 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden
…2001) is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 meters and 200 m. A five-time World Champion, she won three world titles at the 2025 World Championships, capturing gold in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m. She's the first American to do so and only the second woman to do so after Jamaican Shelly-Ann…
Japan National Stadium on Sept. 20, 2025, the eighth night of the 2025 World Athletics Championships