Jamaican double world champion Shericka Jackson dominated, as expected, the 200m of the Athletics Diamond League finals on Sunday in Eugene (Oregon, United States), but without threatening the American’s old world record Florence Griffith-Joyner.
In 21 sec 57 (0.3 m/s wind), Jackson still managed the 8th best time in the history of the double lap. Of the eight, she now holds five.
The 29-year-old Jamaican won a second world champion title last month in Budapest by running in 21 sec 41, just seven hundredths of a second off the world record for the controversial “Flo-Jo”, set in 1988 at the Games. Seoul Olympics.
Very fit, Jackson ran again in 21 sec 48 in Brussels on September 8.
The double world vice-champion in the 100m is the big favorite for the 200m at the Paris Games in 2024.
Olympic champion in Tokyo but author of a very discreet season, the Canadian Andre de Gre emerged to win the men’s 200m on Sunday in 19 sec 76 (0.6 m/s), in the absence of world champion Noah Lyles, winner of the 100m on Saturday.