Jackson steals the show with 200m victory in Rome

ROME, June 9 (Reuters) – Shericka Jackson outclassed Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah to win the ladies’s 200 metres on the Rome Diamond League assembly on Thursday as Fred Kerley took the lads’s 100m title.

Jamaican Thompson-Herah arrived within the Italian capital after 100m victories in Eugene and Rabat however the 29-year-old confronted her hardest check in a 200m discipline that includes Briton Dina Asher-Smith and 400m Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo.

Seven-times Olympic champion Allyson Felix returned for the primary Diamond League look of her last monitor season however it was Olympic 100m bronze medallist Jackson who shot out of the blocks to win in 21.91 seconds.

Thompson-Herah, bidding to win her first particular person world title in July, was second in 22.25 and Asher-Smith third in 22.27.

Jackson’s victory was a well timed reminder of her skill after a blunder within the Tokyo Video games heats final yr — the place she eased up an excessive amount of and failed to succeed in the ultimate — denied her the chance to problem compatriot Thompson-Herah.

Kerley, second behind compatriot Noah Lyles within the season opener in Doha, eased to his first win of the season within the absence of injured Olympic 100m champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs.

The Olympic silver medallist clocked 9.92 to beat fellow People Kyree King and Cravont Charleston, who had been second and third.

Nicholas Kimeli of Kenya eclipsed Eliud Kipchoge’s assembly document set in 2004, successful the 5,000m in 12:46.33 to make him the seventh quickest athlete over the space.

Italy’s Olympic excessive soar champion Gianmarco Tamberi drew among the loudest cheers on the Stadio Olimpico however didn’t win a primary Diamond League competitors at residence in his fifth try, ending third behind JuVaughn Harrison.

Slovenia’s in-form Kristjan Ceh captured his third Diamond League discus win of the season with a last effort of 70.72m.

Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma broke the eight-minute barrier in 3000m steeplechase for the third time in a bit of over every week, sealing victory in 7:59.23 after equally spectacular efforts in Ostrava and Rabat.

Dutchwoman Femke Bol, the Tokyo Video games bronze medallist in 400m hurdles, claimed gold with a time of 53.02 ending forward of Jamaica’s Janieve Russell and Ukraine’s Anna Ryzhykova.

Ethiopia’s Hirut Meshesha adopted up her 1,500m victory in Rabat final week with one other comfy win in 4:03.79, whereas Olympic champion Athing Mu dominated the 800m, the American clocking a world main time of 1:57.01.

The Diamond League continues subsequent week with the season’s sixth assembly in Oslo.

Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru, enhancing by Ed Osmond

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