Jackson still trying to figure out Fraser-Pryce ahead of 100m clash

MONACO, France, Aug 9 – Newly-minted world 200m champion Shericka Jackson hopes that Jamaican teammate Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will carry probably the most out of her once they go head-to-head within the 100m at Wednesday’s Diamond League meet in Monaco.

Jackson’s showdown with Fraser-Pryce, who received a fifth 100m title in Eugene final month on the age of 35, is only one of a handful of tasty clashes in a gathering that has established itself as one which arguably options the strongest line-up of the season.

Different key duels embody world 200m champion Noah Lyles taking up world 400m champion and American teammate Michael Norman over 200m.

And the scene is about for a harum-scarum males’s 1,000m as Kenya’s reigning 800m Olympic and world champion Emmanuel Korir confronts Briton Jake Wightman, who received 1500m gold in Oregon.

Jackson stated she couldn’t wait to make her Monaco debut on the Stade Louis II, which has historically provided up a quick observe and balmy circumstances athletes love.

“I like competing with Shelly,” stated Jackson, who set a championship file of 21.45 seconds, the second quickest time ever run over the space, for a primary particular person world title at Hayward Subject.

“It’s been two years I’ve been competing together with her and I find it irresistible. She at all times brings the perfect out of me. She at all times brings her ‘A’ sport. She at all times retains constructive.”

– Benefit from the competitors –

Jackson outgunned Fraser-Pryce on the again straight to win that world 200m gold, however she was extra life like in regards to the 100m, through which she is reigning Olympic bronze medallist.

Requested what her gameplan for victory in Monaco was, former 400m runner Jackson joked: “I’m nonetheless making an attempt to determine that out! I’ve by no means overwhelmed her over 100m.”

Fraser-Pryce is in formidable type, having run 4 10.67sec profitable runs this season in addition to a world-leading 10.66sec for victory in Saturday’s 100 metres on the Silesia Diamond League assembly in Poland.

“Each second I step on observe I simply wish to benefit from the competitors,” Jackson continued.

“I like to have enjoyable on the market and run some quick occasions. The 100m area is at all times aggressive. Each girl’s coming on the market tomorrow to offer their ‘A’ sport.

“If you happen to proceed to consider occasions, you’ll find yourself being disenchanted,” the 28-year-old all-rounder stated, admitting nonetheless that she needed to now run sooner than 21.40sec within the 200m.

“If it doesn’t occur this season, the coach and I’ll return to the drafting board.”

The fields are loaded all through in Monaco, with world and Olympic ladies’s 1500m champion Religion Kipyegon heading a powerful line-up that would see the Kenyan pushing world file tempo.

The opposite 5 world gold medallists on present embody American Grant Holloway (males’s 110m hurdles), two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas (ladies’s 400m), Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas (ladies’s triple bounce), Qatari Mutaz Barshim (males’s excessive bounce) and Australian Kelsey-Lee Barber (ladies’s javelin).