Shericka Jackson, OD (born 16 July 1994) is a Jamaican sprinter competing in the

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, and

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. She is the fastest woman alive and second fastest woman of all time in the 200 metres since 2022. Jackson started her career as a 400 m sprinter, winning bronze at the

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, 2015 World Championships and 2019 World Championships. At the same competitions, she added medals in the 4 x 400 m relays, taking a silver, gold and bronze, respectively. She earned also the gold medal in the 4 x 100 m relay at the 2019 World Championships. After Jackson shifted to shorter sprints in 2021 she won bronze in the 100 m at the

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, adding a gold and bronze for the 4 x 100 m and 4 x 400 m relays respectively. That year, she achieved sub-10.8-second and sub-22-second personal bests in the 100 m and 200 m respectively and with her 400 m lifetime best below 49.5 s she became one of few women to reach such marks at all those events simultaneously. At the 2022 World Championships, Jackson won a silver for the 100 m, gold in the 200 m setting national record, and a silver for the 4 x 100 m relay. She was the

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200 m champion.

Career

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Since 2008 Shericka Jackson had been winning gold medals in different age categories at the

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, and then CACAC Junior Championships. She placed in the 200 metres finals of the

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, 2011 World Youth Championships (3rd), 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 sub-50-second in August.

2021

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

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. She came third in the 100 m at the delayed

with even better PB of 10.76 s, just behind fellow country woman

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who clocked 10.74 s. The Jamaicans swept the medal stand in the event for the second time in history as

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took the gold medal in 10.61 s. In the 200 metres, 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.

2022

Jackson continued to impress in the shorter sprints throughout the 2022 season winning 3 medals at the

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. At the Jamaican trials, she won the sprint double, clocking 10.77 seconds in the 100m and 21.55 seconds in the 200m; her 21.55-second clocking elevated her to #3 all-time. At the World Championships, Jackson won the silver medal at the 100m, in a then-personal best of 10.73 seconds making her the joint 7th fastest woman of all time and copped the gold medal in the 200m in a championship and national record of 21.45 seconds, making her the fastest woman alive and second fastest woman of all time at the event. In the 4x100 meters relay final, Jackson ran a spectacular split of 9.72 s on the anchor leg, but wasn't able to pass the American sprinter

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. Consequently, she and the Jamaican team consisting of

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and

earned the silver medal in a season's best of 41.18 seconds, the sixth fastest time in history. At the Monaco Diamond League on 10 August, Jackson lowered her personal best to 10.71 seconds to finish second behind Fraser-Pryce (10.62 s) and just ahead of Marie-Josee 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.

Achievements

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Personal bests

International competitions

Circuit wins

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: Paris Meeting (200m) **

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(400m) **

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: Stockholm Bauhaus-Galan (200m) **

: Rome Golden Gala (200m ), Chorzów Kamila Skolimowska Memorial (200m MR), Brussels Memorial Van Damme (100m), Zürich Weltklasse (200m)

National titles

Jamaican Athletics Championships The Jamaican Athletics Championships is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association, which serves as the national championship for the sport in Jamaica.1994 births Living people Jamaican female sprinters World Athletics Championships athletes for Jamaica People from Saint Ann Parish Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics World Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Jamaica Olympic gold medalists for Jamaica Olympic silver medalists for Jamaica Olympic bronze medalists for Jamaica Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Jamaica Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) World Athletics Championships winners Jamaican Athletics Championships winners Pan American Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic female sprinters