KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Wormen’s 200-meter world champion Shericka Jackson mentioned she was happy along with her achievements through the worldwide out of doors season and ended the 12 months wholesome. Nonetheless, she failed to interrupt the long-standing world of deceased American dash queen Florence Griffith-Joyner.
The 29-year-old Jamaican sprinter had set her sights on breaking the ladies’s world 200 file of 21.34 seconds set by Griffith-Joyner on the Olympic Video games 35 years in the past in Seoul, South Korea, and acquired to inside seven-hundredths of a second when she retained her world title final month within the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
“I’m feeling good,” she mentioned in a current interview following the World Athletics Diamond League finals, the place she accomplished the dash double with wins within the 100 and 200.
“I mentioned in a earlier interview that if I don’t get it (the 200 world file), I’m okay, but when I do get it, it’s a plus. I didn’t get it this 12 months, and I’m okay and blissful. I’m nonetheless grateful for being wholesome and I used to be so constant. I solely ran 21.4 as soon as final season, and to have the ability to run three this 12 months, I’m feeling good.”
“The 200 on the World Championships was the excessive level of my season. I knew I used to be in fairly good condition however didn’t know I might run that quick.”
Aside from her run on the World Championships, Jackson additionally ran 21.48 on the Diamond League meet in Brussels. She is edging nearer and now has three of the 4 quickest occasions within the ladies’s 200, however she just isn’t but able to make any predictions for the 2024 Olympics in France.
“Actually, I haven’t thought in regards to the Olympics but,” she mentioned. “I simply take it one season at a time. I’m wholesome proper now, and I’ve most likely per week’s break, so I wish to take pleasure in that.
“I’ve been so targeted on doing effectively this season, and now I wish to give attention to having my break, after which I’ll return to the drafting board.”
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