J’can triple jump trio eye medal finishes

Jamaica’s Shanieka Ricketts competes within the girls’s triple bounce through the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Picture: Collin Reid courtesy of Courts Prepared Money, Sports activities Growth Basis and Jamaica Vacationer Board)

EUGENE, Oregon — Jamaica’s medal hunt on the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Discipline in Eugene, Oregon, will proceed this afternoon with three girls lined up within the triple bounce remaining set to begin at 6:20 pm native time.

Shanieka Ricketts, the silver medallist in Doha, Qatar, in 2019, will lead the Jamaican cost that features World Indoor bronze medallist Kimberly Williams and College of Texas freshman Ackelia Smith.It will likely be the primary time three Jamaicans will line up in a triple bounce remaining at a worldwide championships.

In the meantime, contemporary from their exploits final evening, former champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, nationwide champion and world chief Shericka

Jackson, and Elaine Thompson-Herah will begin their quest within the 200m.The Jamaican male sprinters may also begin their quest for redemption when their 200m additionally will get underway, whereas feminine discus thrower Samantha Corridor makes her first look on the World Championships when she traces up within the qualifying spherical.

After ending an agonising fourth final 12 months on the Olympic Video games in Tokyo, Ricketts will begin as a medal favorite right here however faces the daunting presence of celebrity Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela, the world report holder for each indoors and outdoor.Ricketts has been in nice kind with a season’s greatest 14.52m. She solely wanted one try within the first spherical to qualify for in the present day’s remaining, that mark was 14.45m.

The 20-year-old Smith, who was ninth on the World Beneath-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, final 12 months, recorded an enormous private greatest 14.36m on Friday to qualify for the finals and is predicted to proceed her enchancment in the present day with nothing to lose.

The skilled Williams, a two-time Commonwealth Video games champion, can’t be counted out and regardless of being the ultimate qualifier on Friday, may problem for a medal.

Regardless of not contesting the occasion on the nationwide championships final month, Ackeem Bloomfield will run the 200m right here and can line up towards American teen sensation Erriyon Knighton and former Jamaica Faculty runner Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake of Nice Britain.

Yohan Blake, who didn’t get previous the semi-finals of the boys’s 100m on Saturday, will face 100m champion Fred Kerley of the USA in his warmth, whereas Rasheed Dwyer takes on Noah Lyles of the USA in his first-round race.