Shericka Jackson of Jamaica smiles after successful the ladies’s 200-meter competitors on the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea IAAF Diamond League athletics assembly in Rome, Thursday, June 9, 2022.
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Ladies’s world 200 metres champion, 29-year-old Shericka Jackson of Jamaica will lead the Caribbean expertise through the Bislett Video games, the sixth leg of the World Athletics Diamond League collection in Norway.
The dash queen will likely be making her second Diamond League look on the Bislett Stadion within the Norwegian capital of Oslo, and will likely be joined by plenty of international champions and world record-holders.
Jackson obtained her season off to a successful begin with a 200m victory on the Diamond League meet in Rabat-Marrakech in Morocco, when she clocked 22.82 seconds.
Her predominant rivals would be the American trio of Jenna Prandini, Anavia Battle, and Brittany Brown, plus Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith of the Ivory Coast, and British sprinter Daryll Neita, who gained the 200 within the second Diamond League meet of the season in Shanghai-Suzhou, China, and 100 within the third leg in Doha, Qatar.
Former world champion Yohan Blake of Jamaica traces up within the males’s 100 metres and is accompanied by compatriot Rohan Watson in a race that additionally options reigning Olympic champion, Marcell Jacobs of Italy.
Akani Simbine of South Africa and Emmanuel Eseme can even face the starter, in addition to American Brandon Hicklin and Briton Jeremiah Azu, who’ve each run private greatest under 10 seconds this season.
World bronze medallist Sada Williams of Barbados will attempt to capsize world champion Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic once they line-up for the ladies’s 400. World indoor silver medallist Lieke Klaver of Nice Britain can even be featured within the line up.
The lads’s 400 options the 2011 world and 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James of Grenada, world indoor bronze medallist Rusheen McDonald of Jamaica, world indoor silver medallist Matthew Hudson-Smith of Nice Britain and Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen.
World bronze medallist Rushell Clayton of Jamaica leads the entries for the ladies’s 400 hurdles, alongside along with her compatriots, Andrenette Knight and Janieve Russell. Fellow Jamaican Natoya Goule-Toppin will face the starter for the ladies’s 800.
