Because the nineteenth version of the World Indoor Championships kicks off in Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, Jamaican athletes are decided to surpass their efficiency from two years in the past in Belgrade, Serbia.
In 2022, Jamaica secured three medals – one gold and two bronze – ending twelfth on the medal desk.
The nation’s gold medal was clinched within the girls’s 4×400-metre relay, whereas bronze medals have been earned by Kimberly Williams within the girls’s triple soar and Stephenie-Ann McPherson within the girls’s 400 metres.
Aiming to duplicate her earlier success
Returning to the championships, Kimberly Williams will compete within the triple soar as soon as once more, aiming to duplicate her earlier success. Nonetheless, McPherson, who set a nationwide senior Indoor file of fifty.79 seconds within the girls’s 400 metres, will solely take part within the girls’s 4×400-metre relay.
Jamaican athletes are set for early motion with Stacy-Ann Williams and Charokee Younger contesting the preliminary spherical of the ladies’s 400 metres, adopted by Rusheen McDonald within the males’s 400 metres preliminary spherical.
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Feminine shot putter Danniel Thomas-Dodd, with a season’s better of 18.75 metres, will compete within the girls’s shot put remaining, whereas Natoya Goule and Ackeem Blake will take part within the girls’s 800 metres preliminary spherical and males’s 60 metres heats, respectively.
Anticipated to advance
Blake, ranked third on the planet within the males’s 60 metres occasion, with a season and private better of 6.45 seconds, is predicted to advance to the semi-finals and presumably contend for a medal within the remaining.
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Additionally, Rajindra Campbell, ranked fourth on the planet in males’s shot put, will compete within the remaining, aiming to showcase his prowess within the occasion.
With a robust contingent of athletes and excessive expectations, Jamaica units its sights on exceeding its earlier World Indoor Championships achievements, aiming for a profitable marketing campaign in Glasgow.