Five-time Olympic Games medallist Shericka Jackson will be in action tomorrow when she lines up in the 100 metres at the Rabat Diamond League in Morocco.
The World 200m champion, who pulled out of the Paris Olympic Games last year due to injury, has not been at her best so far this season and will be looking to do something special in her first outing over the distance.
With a personal best of 10.65 — one of the fastest times ever by a female in the event — Jackson, who recently anchored Jamaica’s team to bronze in the 4x100m relay at the World Relays, will be hoping to show some improvement on her past efforts this season. Recently, her MVP Track Club teammate Tia Clayton clocked a world-leading 10.92 and Jackson will no doubt be aiming to get close to that mark tomorrow.
In Rabat, Jackson, who has been added to the 100m lineup for next month’s Racers Grand Prix meet in Kingston, will face NCAA standout Cambrea Sturgis and Jacious Sears of the United States along with New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs.
Following an injury at the season-opening Grand Slam Track meet in the women’s 400m hurdles in Kingston — where she stopped early in the race — Rushell Clayton is one of two Jamaicans set to contest the event in Rabat. She will be joined by Andrenette Knight. The outstanding Femke Bol of the Netherlands will make her season’s debut in the event.
Natoya Goule-Toppin will be the other Jamaican competing on the track, as she contests the women’s 800m. She will be aiming to improve on her season’s best of 1:58.43.
Three Jamaicans will be in action in the field events. Raymond Richards, with a season’s best of 2.30m, and Romaine Beckford, with 2.21m, will contest the men’s high jump. Rajindra Campbell, with a season’s best of 20.24m, will compete in the men’s shot put.
Meanwhile, South Africa’s Akani Simbine will be aiming to continue his unbeaten run this season in the men’s 100m, where he will face Americans Brandon Hicklin and Fred Kerley and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, the Paris Olympic Games 200m champion.
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