2023-08-26 11:06:15
35 years ago ‘Flo-Jo’ [fallecida en 1998 a los 38 años] She set the women’s record for the track half lap, with a time of 21 seconds and 34 hundredths at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Shericka Jackson, 29, has set out to beat it and she’s not hiding it.
“I’m getting closer to the world record. I’m getting closer and it’s going to get there. I’m going to continue working for it,” he declared on Friday after setting the second best time in history.
A year ago, she was crowned in the Eugene World Championship with 21.45, which made her the second fastest woman in history in the half lap of the track and on Friday she even lowered to 21.41 to win the title in the Budapest World Championship, taking a considerable advantage to the other two members of the podium, the Americans Gabby Thomas (21.81) and Sha’Carri Richardson (21.92).
Since she decided to trade the 400 meters for the shorter races, in early 2021, Shericka Jackson has not stopped accelerating.
“In 2019, after the World Cup, I found out I had stress fractures in my tibia. I couldn’t do much in 2020. Covid-19 came and it was bad news for some, but in my case it ended up being good for my career because if the Olympic Games [en Tokio, trasladados de 2020 a 2021 por la pandemia] Had they been held then I probably wouldn’t have been able to make the team,” the 29-year-old Jamaican told AFP in mid-July.
“At the beginning of 2021 I was in pain, so my coach decided that we were going to focus on the 100 and 200 meters,” explains Stephen Francis’s pupil at the famous Jamaican MVP club. “I was a little nervous because I didn’t know if I was going to be able to, at that time I had a training program more oriented to the 400 meters than the short sprint,” she says.
successful conversion
“When I started the sprint it was really difficult. My legs didn’t respond as they should. In the 400 meters, the leg speed is very different, everything is,” he recalls. Then everything got better.
In addition to his second world gold in the 200 meters, Jackson took silver in the 100 meters at this World Cup in Budapest, just like in Eugene’s event last year. In his individual record, beyond his achievements as part of the Jamaican relay, the Olympic bronze medal for the 100 meters, which he won in Tokyo in 2021, also stands out.
At the Games in the Japanese capital, he failed to medal in the 200 meters for slowing down too much in the series.
Before that, Shericka Jackson’s first individual international medals had come in the 400 meters, all in bronze, both at the Rio-2016 Olympic Games and the Beijing-2015 and Doha-2019 World Cups.
Shericka Jackson’s path in athletics began when she was about ten years old and, after living with her grandmother, she moved with her father to Saint Ann, in the north of the Caribbean island, two hours from Kingston.
“I wasn’t interested in track and field at the time, but I was glad to be away from home,” recalls the Jamaican athlete, whose career took off in high school.
“I wasn’t fast, but I wanted to be, I worked for it,” she says proudly.
So fast that one of the oldest world records seems to be within reach.
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