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Shericka Jackson

Shericka Jackson (born 16 July 1994)[3] is a Jamaican sprinter competing in the 60 m, 100 m, 200 m, and 400 metres. In the 100 m, she’s the fifth fastest woman of all time, while in the 200 m, she’s the second fastest woman in history.

Shericka Jackson
Jackson at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha
Personal information
Born (1994-07-16) 16 July 1994 (age 30)
Saint Ann, Jamaica
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)[1]
Sport
CountryJamaica
SportTrack and field
EventSprint
TeamPuma & MVP Track Club
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
  • 2016 Rio de Janeiro
  • 400 m,  Bronze
  • 4 × 400 m,  Silver
  • 2020 Tokyo
  • 100 m,  Bronze
  • 4 × 100 m,  Gold
  • 4 × 400 m,  Bronze
World finals
  • 2015 Beijing
  • 400 m,  Bronze
  • 4 × 400 m,  Gold
  • 2017 London
  • 400 m, 5th
  • 2019 Doha
  • 400 m,  Bronze
  • 4 × 100 m,  Gold
  • 4 × 400 m,  Bronze
  • 2022 Eugene
  • 100 m,  Silver
  • 200 m,  Gold
  • 4 × 100 m,  Silver
  • 2023 Budapest
  • 100 m,  Silver
  • 200 m,  Gold
  • 4 × 100 m,  Silver
Highest world ranking1st (200 m, 2023)[2]
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Jamaica
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×400 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo 4×400 m relay
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Beijing 4×400 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2019 Doha 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2022 Eugene 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2023 Budapest 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2022 Eugene 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2022 Eugene 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2023 Budapest 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2023 Budapest 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Beijing 400 m
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha 400 m
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha 4×400 m relay
Diamond League
First place 2022 200 m
First place 2023 100 m
First place 2023 200 m
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast 200 m
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima 400 m
NACAC Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Toronto 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2022 Freeport 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2018 Toronto 4×100 m relay
World Athletics Relays
Gold medal – first place 2017 Nassau 4×200 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2014 Nassau 4×400 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Yokohama 4×200 m relay

Jackson started her career as a 400 m sprinter, winning individual bronze medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, 2015 World Championships and 2019 World Championships. At these competitions, she won silver in the 4 x 400 m relays at the 2016 Olympics, then gold and bronze respectively at the 2015 and 2019 World Championships. At the 2019 Championships, she also won gold in the 4 x 100 m relay.

After Jackson shifted to shorter sprints in 2021 she won bronze in the 100 m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, then added a gold and bronze for the 4 x 100 m and 4 x 400 m relays respectively. That year, she achieved a sub-10.80 s personal best in the 100 m and sub-22 s in the 200 m. With her sub-49.5 s best in the 400 m, she became one of few women to reach such marks at those events. At the 2022 World Championships, she won a silver in the 100 m, gold in the 200 m setting national record, and a silver for the 4 x 100 m relay. She was the 2022 Diamond League 200 m champion.

Jackson is the first athlete in World Championship history to win medals in the 100, 200 and 400 metres, including the 4x100 and 4x400 metres relays. She is also the second athlete in history, behind Marita Koch to win medals in the 100, 200, 400, 4x100 and 4x400 metres at the World Championships and/or the Olympic Games.

Background

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Jackson was born in Jamaica. She participated in track and field at Steer Town Academy and Vere Technical schools. She represented Jamaica at age 14 in the CARIFTA Games in 2008.[4]

Career

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Jackson at the Meeting de Paris in 2018, part of the Diamond League.

Since 2008 Shericka Jackson had been winning age-group gold medals at the CARIFTA Games, and then CACAC Junior Championships. She placed in the 200 m finals of the 2010 Youth Olympics, 2011 World Youth Championships (third), and the 2012 World Junior Championships.

Her greater progress in the 400 m came at the age of 21, in 2015, when she first went under 51 seconds in June and finally under 50 seconds in August.[3]

2021

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Under the guidance of renowned coach Stephen Francis, Jackson switched to the 100 m and 200 m sprints for the 2021 season, running personal bests of 10.77 s and 21.82 s respectively at the Jamaica Olympic Trials in Kingston.

She came third in the 100 m at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics with even better career best of 10.76 s, just behind fellow country woman Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who clocked 10.74 s. The Jamaicans swept the medal stand in the event for the second time in history as Elaine Thompson-Herah took the gold medal in 10.61 s.[5] In the 200 m, she failed to advance out of the heats after she slowed down before the finish line and was passed by Dalia Kaddari for the third automatic advancement spot by four one-thousandths of a second; her time of 23.26 s was not fast enough to earn one of the advancement-by-time places.[6][7]

2022

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Jackson continued to impress in the shorter sprints throughout the 2022 season winning three medals at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon. At the Jamaican trials, she won the sprint double, clocking 10.77 s in the 100 m and 21.55 s in the 200 m; her time at the latter elevated her to third on the respective world all-time list.[3] At the World Championships, Jackson won the silver medal at the 100 m in a personal best of 10.73 s, making her the joint seventh-fastest woman of all time, and copped the gold medal in the 200 m in a championship and national record of 21.45 s, making her the fastest woman alive and second fastest woman of all time at the event. With this 200m title, Jackson became the first athlete in World Championship history to win 100, 200 and 400 metres medals.[3] In the 4 x 100 m relay final, Jackson ran a spectacular split of 9.72 s on the anchor leg, but wasn't able to pass the American sprinter Twanisha Terry. Consequently, she and the Jamaican team consisting of Kemba Nelson, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce earned the silver medal in a season's best of 41.18 s, the sixth fastest time in history.[3] At the Monaco Diamond League on 10 August, Jackson lowered her 100 m personal best to 10.71 s to finish second behind Fraser-Pryce (10.62 s) and just ahead of Marie-Josée Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast who ran an African record of 10.72 s. With her result Jackson became the sixth-fastest woman and third-fastest Jamaican woman of all time.[3][8][9]

2023

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Jackson continued her good form into 2023, where she won three medals at the World Championships, including a gold medal in the 200 metres[10] in which she clocked 21.41 s, the second fastest time in history.[3] She also won a silver medal in the 100 m, finishing behind Sha'Carri Richardson. She won another silver medal in the 4x100 m relay final, along with her teammates Natasha Morrison, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shashalee Forbes.[3][11] Before the World Championships, Jackson had set a 100 m personal best of 10.65 s at the Jamaican trials, moving her up to joint fifth on the all-time top list. She also won the Jamaican women's 200 m title, in a time of 21.71 s.[3] Jackson finished her season at the Eugene Diamond League where she became the Diamond League champion over both the 100 m and 200 m.[3]

2024

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On 19 May 2024, Jackson won the 200 m at the Marrakesh Diamond League in a time of 22.82 s.[12] She placed a disappointing fifth over 200 m at the Bislett Games, ending her two-year unbeaten streak in the event.[13] Jackson won the Jamaican Championship titles in the 100 m and 200 m with times of 10.87 s and 22.29 s respectively.[14] She was selected for the Jamaican team for the 2024 Paris Olympics but had to withdraw through injury.[15][16]

Achievements

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Shericka Jackson won the 200 m with the championship record and took silver in the 100 m at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene.

Information from World Athletics profile.[3]

Personal bests

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Event Time (s) Wind (m/s) Venue Date Notes
60 metres 7.23 -1.2 Spanish Town, Jamaica 5 February 2022
60 metres indoor 7.04 — Belgrade, Serbia 18 March 2022
100 metres 10.65 +1.0 Kingston, Jamaica 7 July 2023 5th of all time
200 metres 21.41 +0.1 Budapest, Hungary 25 August 2023 NR, 2nd of all time
400 metres 49.47 — Doha, Qatar 3 October 2019

International competitions

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Representing   Jamaica
Year Competition Venue Position Event Time
2008 CARIFTA Games (U17) Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1st 400 m 54.52
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:39.62
2009 CARIFTA Games (U17) Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia 1st 200 m 23.62
1st 400 m 53.48
1st 4 × 100 m relay 45.05
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:38:09
2010 CARIFTA Games (U18) George Town, Cayman Islands 1st 200 m 23.64 w
2nd 400 m 53.71
1st 4 × 100 m relay 45.98
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:44.02
Central American and Caribbean
Junior Championships (U18) 		Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1st 200 m 24.23
1st 4 × 100 m relay 45.67
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:43.08
World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 4th 4 × 100 m relay 44.68 [n 1]
Youth Olympic Games Republic of Singapore 4th 200 m 24.08
2011 CARIFTA Games (U20) Montego Bay, Jamaica 2nd 200 m 23.48
1st 4 × 100 m relay 44.08
World Youth Championships Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France 3rd 200 m 23.62
1st Medley relay 2:03.42
2012 CARIFTA Games (U20) Hamilton, Bermuda 3rd 200 m 24.03
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 45.18
Central American and Caribbean
Junior Championships (U20) 		San Salvador, El Salvador 2nd 200 m 23.87
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:37.21
World Junior Championships Barcelona, Spain 8th 200 m 23.53
2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:32.97
2013 CARIFTA Games (U20) Nassau, Bahamas 2nd 200 m 22.84
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:34.36
2014 World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:23.26
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 3rd 400 m 49.99
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:19.13 WL
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3rd 400 m 49.85
2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:20.34
2017 World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 1st 4 × 200 m relay 1:29.04 CR NR
World Championships London, United Kingdom 5th 400 m 50.76
DNF 4 × 400 m relay DNF
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 2nd 200 m 22.18
World Cup London, United Kingdom 1st 200 m 22.35
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 42.60
NACAC Championships Toronto, Canada 1st 200 m 22.64
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 43.33
2019 World Relays Yokohama, Japan 3rd 4 × 200 m relay 1:33.21
Pan American Games Lima, Peru 1st 400 m 50.73
World Championships Doha, Qatar 3rd 400 m 49.47 PB
1st 4 × 100 m relay 41.44 WL
3rd 4 × 400 m relay 3:22.37
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 3rd 100 m 10.76 PB
29th (h) 200 m 23.26
1st 4 × 100 m relay 41.02 NR
3rd 4 × 400 m relay 3:21.24 SB
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 6th 60 m 7.04
World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 2nd 100 m 10.73 PB
1st 200 m 21.45 CR NR
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 41.18 SB
NACAC Championships Freeport, Bahamas 1st 100 m 10.83
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 2nd 100 m 10.72
1st 200 m 21.41 CR
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 41.21

Circuit wins and titles

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National titles

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Notes

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  1. ^ Time from the heats; Jackson was replaced in the final

References

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  1. ^ "Rio 2016 bio". Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  2. ^ "World Rankings | Women's 200m".
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Shericka JACKSON – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Shericka Jackson Biography". olympics.com. 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  5. ^ Reid, Paul A (31 July 2021). "Thompson-Herah smashes Flo-Jo's Olympic record, leads Jamaican sweep in women's 100m". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Jamaica's Shericka Jackson out of 200m after rookie heats blunder". NBC. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Shericka Jackson 200m heat results, Jamaica runner's unforgivable act". 2 August 2021.
  8. ^ Jeffery, Nicole (10 August 2022). "Kipyegon and Fraser-Pryce continue hot streak in Monaco". World Athletics. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  9. ^ Bailey, Robert (11 August 2022). "Fraser-Pryce happy for consistency: Sets new world lead, takes aim at personal best". The Gleaner. Kingston. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  10. ^ Dennehy, Cathal (25 August 2023). "Jackson and Lyles retain 200m titles, Rojas and Kitaguchi snatch gold in final round". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  11. ^ Turnbull, Simon (26 August 2023). "USA sets championship record to win women's 4x100m in Budapest". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  12. ^ de Villiers, Ockert (19 May 2024). "Diamond League Rabat/Marrakech 2024: Shericka Jackson gets 200m season off to a winning start". olympics.com. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  13. ^ "Gebrhiwet threatens world 5000m record in Oslo". World Athletics. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  14. ^ Francis, Noel (30 June 2024). "National championships round-up: Nugent and Thompson impress in Jamaica". World Athletics. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  15. ^ Pells, Eddie (4 August 2024). "Jamaica's Shericka Jackson a no-show at 200 meters and won't race for individual medal at Olympics". AP News. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  16. ^ "#ParisOlympics: Shericka Jackson pulls out of 200m". Jamaica Observer. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  17. ^ "World Leaders by Ingebrigtsen & Korir Highlight 2022 Diamond League Final". LetsRun.com. 8 September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
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