So, that might be the push she needs to go faster,” Lawrence continued. And of course, Elaine-Thompson-Herah, who has run 21.53, could be in better shape, while Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (22.14) could be in better shape by that time. “At the world championships, she will have in the field the US champion Abby Steiner who ran 21.77, as well Dina Asher-Smith, the defending champion who is slowly coming back to top condition and could be in sub-22 ready by that time.
When the rain falls on the track at the stadium and blows off, then the track gets bouncy and is very good for sprinters.” “That’s 21.34, and I think it is important to note that the conditions on Sunday at the National Stadium were special. Whether she can go to the world record is something else,” Lawrence said. Meters gold medalist performs at the same level at the Eugene 2022 World Athletics Championships as she did at the Jamaica Trials, the world could witness the first sub-21.5 clocking by any female sprinter since Griffith Joyner. Veteran sports commentator and track and field analyst Hubert Lawrence believes that if the Olympic 4×100 Jackson’s time is only bettered by the world record holder Florence Griffith Joyner’s 21.34 set in 1988 and Elaine Thompson-Herah’s national record of 21.53 set last year. However, it was her scintillating performance at the Jamaica Trials, in which she produced 21.55 that etched her name as one of the greatest female sprinters of all time in the event and raised the possibility of shattering the national record and the 34-year-old world record. Jackson clocked 21.96, which was a season’s best performance and a new meet record. The Olympic 100 meters bronze medalist gave the world an early warning that something special was brewing in the half-lap event when she demolished a field which included five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, defending 200 meters world champion Dina Asher-Smith and Olympic 400 meters champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea /Rome Diamond League meeting in June. Shericka Jackson wins World Athletics Award Shericka Jackson made history at the Jamaica Trials on Sunday, June 26 when she destroyed a stellar lineup to clock the third-fastest 200 meters of all time in a massive personal best and world-leading time of 21.55 seconds.
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