Jamaica’s ace feminine sprinter Shericka Jackson romped residence to a facile victory within the ladies’s 200m remaining to finish a memorable Diamond League trophy dash double inside Haywood Discipline on the College of Oregon on Sunday.
On the ultimate day of the two-day Prefontaine Basic, the season-ending Diamond League meet in Eugene, Oregon, Jackson sped to a sensational 21.57 seconds to be a lonely winner in her pet occasion, establishing a brand new Diamond League Report within the course of after beating the 21.77 seconds set in 2017 by the late American sprinter Tori Bowie.
Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast was second in a season-best 22.10 seconds, with Anthonique Strachan of the Bahamas ending in third place in 22.16 seconds.
Jackson had received the 100m remaining on Saturday in a brisk 10.70 seconds, with Ta Lou being the runner-up then.
The Jamaican thus captured two Diamond League trophies and one other US$30,000 as money award.
She was delighted with realizing a dream she had from final yr when she completed second to compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce within the 100m remaining earlier than profitable the 200m remaining.
“Humorous sufficient, final yr certainly one of my targets I wrote was how I needed to get two trophies,” Jackson mentioned. “I didn’t get two trophies final yr and I rewrote that once more, that I needed two trophies this yr. I bought it and I’m grateful. The tip of the season, I’m wholesome and I ran some quick instances. So I’m undoubtedly grateful.”
Jackson was the pre-eminent feminine sprinter this yr and went extraordinarily near copping the dash double on the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023.
She narrowly misplaced the 100m remaining to American Sha’Carri Richardson however set the document straight with a dominant victory within the 200m within the second quickest time ever, 21.41 seconds, merely seven-hundredth of a second exterior Florence Griffith-Joyner’s monitor document of 21.34 seconds set in 1988 on the Seoul Olympic Video games.
Sensible Parchment stuns Halloway
Earlier, 2021 Olympic Video games 110m hurdles gold medallist Hansle Parchment of Jamaica surprised three-time World Champion Grant Halloway to grab the Diamond League trophy in a private finest and World Main 12.93 seconds.
The World Championships Budapest 2023 bronze medallist recovered rapidly from his traditional sluggish begin to energy previous the American for a snug victory. Halloway clocked 13.06 seconds, one tick forward of countryman Daniel Roberts in 13.07 seconds.
Parchment was delighted with the win.
“The beginning wasn’t good, I used to be pondering so much about getting a greater begin to actually be a little bit bit extra aggressive. I feel I nonetheless put it collectively largely. Obtained the PR (private finest), bought the win, so I’m very pleased about that.”
Parchment carried out an analogous trick in Japan in 2021 when he ran previous Halloway, famend for his superfast begins, shut residence to say the Olympic Video games gold medal.
On Sunday he spoke to the rivalry that has developed over the previous few years.
“We attempt to take pleasure in ourselves as properly. It’s a pleasant rivalry. We attempt to push one another each time we go there. He has an enormous, ridiculous begin. I attempt to be taught from that each time I see him run. He appears as much as me as properly as a result of I’ve been competing for a few years earlier than he began, so I feel it’s a great rivalry and actually helps us to make the occasion extra aggressive.”
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Goule runs Nationwide Report for bronze in 800m remaining
In the meantime, Natoya Goule ran a Nationwide Report 1:55.96 minutes to say third place within the ladies’s 800m remaining. The pint-sized athlete bettered the 1:56.18 minutes she established in Monaco in 2018.
The occasion was received by American Athing Mu in a Nationwide Report 1:54.97 minutes, with Keely Hodgkinson of Nice Britain taking second, additionally in a Nationwide Report 1:55.19 minutes.
Additionally taking a podium end for Jamaica was 2019 World Champion Tajay Gayle within the males’s lengthy soar.
Gayle reduce the sand at 8:22m, the identical distance as winner Simon Ehammer of Switzerland. Yuki Hashioka of Japan was third with 8.15m.
The Bahamas’ LaQuan Nairn completed 7th with 7.27m.
Clayton ends season with 3rd place in 400m hurdles remaining
Rushell Clayton completed third within the 400m hurdles remaining in 53.56 seconds. The occasion was received by Femke Bol of the Netherlands in a meet-record 51.98 seconds.
She bettered the earlier finest time of 52.77 seconds set in 2021 by American Dalilah Mohammad. Second place went to Shamier Little of the US in 53.45 seconds.
Jamaica’s Janieve Russell completed simply exterior the rostrum in fourth place in 53.60 seconds.
Candice McLeod of Jamaica was fourth within the ladies’s 400m remaining in 50.76 seconds. The race was received by Marileidy Paulinho of the Dominican Republic in 49.58 seconds.
Sada Williams of Barbados was seventh in 51.07 seconds, whereas Aliyah Abrams of Guyana was eighth in 51.97 seconds.
The ladies’s 100m hurdles noticed World Report holder Tobi Amusan of Nigeria upset the applecart when she ran a season-best 12.33 seconds, with Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico taking second in 12.38 seconds and Kendra Harrison of the US taking third place in 12.44 seconds.
Jamaica’s two-time World Champion Danielle Williams completed fourth in 12.47 seconds, with compatriot Megan Tapper fifth in 12.48 seconds.
