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Melissa Jefferson-Wooden

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American athlete

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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, capturing gold in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m.

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Jefferson (right) and her training partner, Twanisha Terry (left), at the 2024 US Olympic trialsJefferson (right) and her training partner, Twanisha Terry (left), at the 2024 US Olympic trials

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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, 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 Fraser-Pryce achieved that feat in 2013.

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Born 2001 · age 25
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