![]() The women’s race saw Jamaican sprinters take the top six places with Smith being best of the lost in a new meet record of 11.16. Germany’s Kevin Kranz who was second in Thompson’s heat was the third fastest clocking in at 10.33. His nearest rival in the two-heat time trial was Great Britain’s David Morgan-Harrison, who ran 10.30 in the second of the two heats. He won his 100m heat in 9.99, a new meet record. Kishane Thompson, Amoi Brown and Jonielle Smith showcased their athletic prowess setting records while winning their respective events at the CAS International Meeting in the town of Schifflange, Luxembourg on Sunday.Īt the meet where they were clearly the class of the field, Thompson, who ran a lifetime best at the Jamaican national championships in early July, showed his time was no fluke. I think I am capable of anything and once my coach and I work on the weak parts and continue to work on the strong parts, I think anything is possible,” Jackson added. “For me, I don’t limit what I’m capable of, not because I started sprinting two years ago. ![]() “I think anything is possible,” Jackson said. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a good day and if the weather stays as it is now, anything is possible,” she added.Īs is customary when someone produces a time as fast as 10.65, Jackson was asked about the prospect of breaking Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 34-year-old world record 10.49. The field is really good so it’s just to focus on my lane and execute. “I’m hoping to execute a good 100m tomorrow and see the result. “As I said at the Jamaica Trials, it was to focus on the 100m and I think I mastered that so I’m just building from there,” Jackson said. Jackson explained her decision to compete in the 100m at tomorrow’s meet in a press conference on Saturday. ![]() Twanisha Terry, Ewa Swoboda, Anthonique Strachan, Gina Luckenkemper and Zoe Hobbs complete the line-up. The field will include the likes of US 100m champion, Sha’Carri Richardson, British 200m champion Darryl Neita and Jackson’s countrywoman and third-place finisher at the Jamaican Championships, Shashalee Forbes. On Sunday, she will compete in her first race since those championships when she lines up in a stacked 100m field at the Silesia Diamond League meet in Poland. Jackson, the fastest woman alive in the 200m and the reigning World Champion in the distance, also won the 200m at the Jamaican National Championships in 21.71, a season’s best. Last week, Shericka Jackson became the joint-fifth fastest woman of all-time when she sped to a new personal best of 10.65 seconds to win her second consecutive Jamaican 100m title.
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