(Saint-Ouen) Jamaican double 100m vice-world champion Shericka Jackson announced on Wednesday that she would be withdrawing from the event at the Paris Olympic Games, and only wants to compete individually in the 200m.
Jackson, 5e The fastest woman of the season, along with American Sha’Carri Richardson, was one of the big favourites to succeed her compatriot Elaine Thompson-Herah, who was absent, on the straight.
“I will only compete in the 200m,” she briefly indicated during a press conference held by her equipment supplier in Saint-Ouen (Seine–Saint-Denis). The 100m heats are scheduled for Friday, then the semi-finals and the final on Saturday.
Winner of the high-profile Jamaican 100m and 200m trials at the end of June, Jackson was injured on July 9 during a competition in Székesfehérvár (Hungary), citing cramp in her calf, without giving any news since.
Double reigning world champion in the 200m, Jackson must therefore compete in the half-lap of the track in Paris (heats on August 4, semis on the 5th, final on the 6th), and possibly the 4x100m relay at the end of the program.
The 30-year-old Jamaican already has five Olympic medals to her name: bronze in the 400m in 2016 in Rio, the 100m and the 4x400m relay in 2021 in Tokyo, as well as silver in the 4x400m in 2016 and gold in the 4x100m in 2021.