Reigning world champion and Diamond League 200m winner Shericka Jackson will start in the first event of the 2023 circuit in Doha on May 5. The Jamaican sprinter will compete in the 100m, and her rivals are expected to include former 200m world champion Dina Asher-Smith (Great Britain).
Shericka Jackson is the first female athlete in history to have world championship medals in three sprint events (100m, 200m, and 400m), as well as the first Jamaican to sub-11sec in the 100m, sub-22sec in the 200m and sub-50sec in the 400m. She is also the winner of five Olympic medals.
At last year’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon, Shericka Jackson won gold in the 200m setting a Jamaican record of 21.45 sec – the second-fastest time in the event’s history. She also took silver in the 100m and 4x100m. Her personal best in the 100m is 10.71 sec from the Monaco Diamond League in August 2022.
Dina Asher-Smith, who won world bronze in the 200m in Oregon in 2022, is Britain’s 100m record holder with 10.83 sec since the Worlds in Doha in 2019, when she finished second. She is also a national record holder in the 200m with 21.88 sec. She is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist in the 4x100m with Great Britain, and in 2019 she won the diamond trophy in the 100m.
Shericka Jackson, who recorded a season’s world best of 10.82 sec (-0.1m/s) in Kingston on April 22, has won four of the five 100m events between the two.
The 4x100m world champions for the USA Melissa Jefferson (personal record 10.82 sec), Abby Steiner (personal record 10.90 sec) and Twanisha Terry (personal record 10.82 sec) will also compete in Doha, as well as Sha’Carri Richardson, who recorded 10.57 sec (+4.1 m/sec) in early April. Her personal best under normal conditions is 10.72 sec.
