{"id":117264,"date":"2026-04-06T07:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/shacarri-richardson-storms-to-iconic-stawell-gift-title-from-back-of-field\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:43:39","slug":"shacarri-richardson-storms-to-iconic-stawell-gift-title-from-back-of-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/shacarri-richardson-storms-to-iconic-stawell-gift-title-from-back-of-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Sha&#8217;Carri Richardson storms to iconic Stawell Gift title from back of field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three-day competition in the rural town of Stawell featured more than 700 competitors and offered total prize money of A$155,000 (\u00a381,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamaican Asafa Powell, Britain&#8217;s Linford Christie and Australian great Cathy Freeman are among the global champions to compete at the event since it was first held in 1878.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richardson&#8217;s partner and fellow American sprinter Christian Coleman, holder of the indoor 60m world record, contested the men&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former 100m world champion was eliminated in the semi-finals, where he finished fifth in 12.48 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The men&#8217;s event was won by Australian 21-year-old Olufemi Komolafe in 11.93 off a five-metre start &#8211; starting behind all but one of his competitors, with runner-up Jake Ireland starting at 4.5m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c75kq466xlvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three-day competition in the rural town of Stawell featured more than 700 competitors and offered total prize money of A$155,000 (\u00a381,000). Jamaican Asafa Powell, Britain&#8217;s Linford Christie and Australian great Cathy Freeman are among the global champions to compete at the event since it was first held in 1878. Richardson&#8217;s partner and fellow American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}