On Saturday, April 5, Alfred of Saint Lucia demonstrated her ability to run a longer sprint distance by defeating Jackson, the double world 200-meter champion, in Florida, USA.
At the 2025 Miramar Invitational in the United States on Saturday, April 5, Olympic 100-meter champion Julien Alfred began her outdoor campaign by defeating Jamaican sprinting star Shericka Jackson in the rarely run 300-meter event. The race featured a mouthwatering duel between the double 200-meter world champion Jackson and the newest sprinting export from the Caribbean.
Jackson started strong, leading the field in and out of the bend before Alfred finished with a flourish in a national record of 36.05 seconds, with the Jamaican finishing 0.08 seconds behind her and Jessika Gbai of Ivory Coast finishing third in 36.24 seconds.
Jackson, who missed the Paris 2024 Olympics due to an injury sustained on the eve of the global showpiece, made her comeback to the track at the start of the 2025 season.
Alfred, the rising star from Saint Lucia, would take some confidence from the race as she is showing some good speed endurance this early in the season. The short-sprint specialist will fancy her chances of taking reigning world champion Jackson over the half-lap sprint later in the season. “Going forward, I am just going to keep on working hard and trust myself,” Alfred said after the race.
In the men’s 100m, Jamaica’s Rohan Watson defeated compatriot and former world champion Yohan Blake to the line. Watson posted a wind-aided 9.99 seconds for the victory with Blake following behind him in a time of 10.06s. Alex Ogando of the Dominican Republic completed out the podium with 10.14s
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