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Shericka Jackson wins 200m with season’s best at Poland Diamond League – Jamaica Observer

Shericka Jackson wins 200m with season’s best at Poland Diamond League – Jamaica Observer

Shericka Jackson wins 200m with season’s best at Poland Diamond League

Shericka Jackson signaled a return to top form as she ran a season’s best 22.17 seconds (-0.3m/s) to win the women’s 200m at Saturday’s Silesia Diamond League athletics meeting in the Stadion Slaski in Chorzow, Poland.

Jackson was one of two Jamaican winners at the meet as Kishane Thompson exacted a measure of revenge for his loss to American Noah Lyles in the Olympic Games last year.

Jackson, who was running her third 200m race of the season, ran a hard first half of the race and was able to hold off American Brittany Brown who ran 22.21 seconds and Favour Ofili who was third in 22.25 seconds.

Thompson, who won in Hungary earlier in the week, showed off his race craft as, after taking the lead in the race, held on to win with a meet record equalling 9.87 seconds (0.3m/s), the same time run by American Fred Kerley last year.

Lyles, who was running only his second competitive 100m race of the season, was second in a season’s best 9.90 seconds with American Championships winner Kenny Bednarek third with 9.96 seconds. Ackeem Blake finished eighth in 10.11 seconds.

Olympic Games finalist Tia Clayton, running in lane nine, produced a personal best 10.82 seconds (0.1m/s), under her previous best of 10.86 seconds set in June, to place second in the women’s 100m behind American world leader Melissa Jefferson-Wooden who equalled the meet record 10.66 seconds, just off her personal best 10.65 seconds.

That time improved Clayton to fourth in the world, just behind her twin sister Tina, 10.81 seconds.

Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith of the Ivory Coast was third in a season’s best 10.87 seconds. Tina Clayton was fourth with 10.91 seconds.

Two-time World Athletics Championships gold medallist Danielle Williams ran a personal best 12.31 seconds (1.4m/s) to place fourth in the 100m hurdles and is now tied for second fastest Jamaican of all-time in the event with Britany Anderson.

National record holder Ackera Nugent was seventh with 12.43 seconds and national champion Megan Tapper finished ninth with 12.66 seconds.

American Masai Russell produced a stunning 12.19 seconds, breaking the meet and Diamond League records, with Tonea Marshall clocking a lifetime best 12.24 seconds for second and Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan third with 12.25 seconds.

National champion Roshawn Clarke, who was racing competitively for the first time since late June, was sixth in the men’s 400m hurdles in 48.81 seconds as Norway’s Karsten Warholm won in a world lead, meet record and Diamond League record 46.28 seconds.

Orlando Bennett was fifth in the 110m hurdles in 13.25 seconds (-0.5m/s), just ahead of Hansle Parchment- 13.27 seconds.

Shiann Salmon ran a season’s best 54.56 seconds for fifth in the women’s 400m hurdles; Romaine Beckford was fourth in the men’s high jump with 2.25m while Ackelia Smith was seventh in the women’s long jump with 6.52m (0.3m/s).

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