The triple Olympic and ten-time world champion spearheads a 66-strong Jamaican crew in Paris
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will bid farewell to the Olympics this summer time as she races in her fifth consecutive and final Video games.
The triple Olympic and ten-time world champion will symbolize Jamaica within the 100m. She has two Olympic 100m titles (Beijing 2008 and London 2012) to her title and has additionally claimed an astonishing 5 world gold medals over the gap.
Fraser-Pryce, who opened her marketing campaign final month and has a season’s better of 10.94, may even be a part of the 4x100m squad on the Olympics and might be hoping to retain the crown that Jamaica gained three years in the past.
The 37-year-old has medalled in each single Olympics, from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 to Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
She might be joined over 100m in Paris by Shericka Jackson and Tia Clayton.
Jackson is after all the double world 200m champion and quickest lady alive round half a lap. After a stunning begin to the season – her season bests within the 100m and 200m by the tip of Might have been simply 11.03 and 22.97 – she bounced again on the Jamaican trials.
Shericka Jackson (Getty)
The 29-year-old clocked a surprising 10.84 to win the 100m and two days later got here again to say victory within the 200m with 22.29.
Clayton is simply 19 and is one among Jamaica’s many prodigious sprinting skills within the sport.
{The teenager} completed second to Jackson in her nation’s 100m remaining on the trials and clocked 10.90. Within the semi-finals, she recorded an unimaginable private better of 10.86.
On the boys’s aspect, Jamaica boasts three younger sprinting superstars.
Kishane Thompson stormed to a sensational win on the trials with a world-leading 9.77, establishing himself as a contender for the Olympic gold medal in Paris.
One man who might need one thing to say about that’s Indirect Seville, who wasn’t too far behind Thompson in Kingston with a private better of 9.82.
Indirect Seville (Getty)
The third man chosen for the 100m is Ackeem Blake, and with a private better of 9.92, he may get a medal within the French capital.
Within the 100m hurdles, double world champion Danielle Williams might be hopeful of including an Olympic gold medal to her assortment.
Hansle Parchment did simply that over 110m hurdles in Tokyo however he may have a troublesome check towards the likes of Grant Holloway and likewise compatriot Rasheed Broadbell.
Though Jamaica is known for its sprinting, a bundle of expertise lies elsewhere within the crew.
Be careful for Jaydon Hibbert within the triple leap. {The teenager} is the world U20 record-holder and has a private better of 17.87m. He’s additionally the world U20 champion and gained the Olympic trials in 17.75m.
One other athlete to look out for is world indoor lengthy leap bronze medallist Carey McLeod. He claimed victory on the trials in Kingston and beat each world silver medallist Wayne Pinnock and 2019 world champion Tajay Gayle, with a finest leap of 8.38m.
Shaneika Ricketts (Getty)
The ultimate one to say is Shaneika Ricketts. With world triple leap record-holder Yulimar Rojas out of the Olympics, Ricketts goes into Paris as one of many favourites for the gold medal.
The double world silver medallist boasts a private better of 15.03m and simply missed out on an Olympic medal in Tokyo after ending fourth.
For under the second time for the reason that 1948 Video games in London, Jamaica won’t discipline a males’s 4x400m crew.
Girls
100m: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson and Tia Clayton
200m: Shericka Jackson, Niesha Burgher and Lanae-Tava Thomas
400m: Junelle Bromfield, Stacey-Ann Williams and Nickisha Pryce
800m: Natoya Goule-Toppin and Adelle Tracey
1500m: Adelle Tracey
100m hurdles: Janeek Brown, Ackera Nugent and Danielle Williams
400m hurdles: Rushell Clayton, Shiann Salmon and Janieve Russell
Lengthy Leap: Chanice Porter and Ackelia Smith
Excessive leap: Lamara Distin
Triple leap: Shanieka Ricketts, Ackelia Smith and Kimberly Williams
Discus throw: Samantha Corridor
Shot put: Lloydricia Cameron and Danniel Thomas-Dodd
Hammer throw: Nayoka Clunis
4x100m Relay: Tia Clayton, Shashalee Forbes, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson and Alana Reid (reserve)
4x400m Relay: Junelle Bromfield, Stephenie-Ann McPherson, Nickisha Pryce, Stacey-Ann Williams and Ashley Williams (reserve)
Blended 4x400m Relay: Andrenette Knight, Charokee Younger and Stephenie-Ann McPherson (reserve)
Males
100m: Ackeem Blake, Kishane Thompson and Indirect Seville
200m: Andrew Hudson and Bryan Levell
400m: Sean Bailey, Deandre Watkin and Jevaughn Powell
800m: Navasky Anderson
100m hurdles: Orlando Bennett, Rasheed Broadbell and Hansle Parchment
400m hurdles: Roshawn Clarke, Jaheel Hyde and Malik James-King
Lengthy Leap: Tajay Gayle, Carey McLeod and Wayne Pinnock
Triple leap: Jaydon Hibbert and Jordan Scott
Excessive leap: Romaine Beckford
Discus throw: Roje Stona, Ralford Mullings and Traves Smikle
Shot put: Rajindra Campbell
4x100m Relay: Ackeem Blake, Jehlani Gordon, Indirect Seville, Kishane Thompson and Jelani Walker (reserve)
Blended 4x400m Relay: Zandrian Barnes, Raheem Hayles and Kimar Farquharson (reserve)
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