Jamaica’s Rohan Watson (L) and Bulgaria’s Nikola Karamanolov compete in the men’s 60m heat during the Indoor World Athletics Championships in Nanjing, in eastern Chinas Jiangsu province on March 21, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP)
Jackson, Williams among Jamaican stars in action at Florida meet
Rohan Watson, Rusheen McDonald and long jumper Ackelia Smith were the Jamaican winners at Saturday’s Miramar Invitational meet, a World Athletics Continental Tour-Silver meeting held at the Ansin Sports Complex in Florida.
Watson, a former national 100m champion and a finalist in the men’s 60m dash at last month’s World Athletics Indoor Championships in China, ran a wind-aided 9.99 seconds (2.7m/s) to win the men’s 100m after leading the qualification with 10.03 seconds (4.3m/s) earlier in the day. Yohan Blake was second with 10.06 seconds and Bryan Levell was fifth with 10.16 seconds (4.0m/s).
Rusheen McDonald won the rarely contested 300m race in 32.39 seconds. Smith meanwhile opened her outdoor jump season with 6.74m (0.0m/s) in the long jump while Tissana Hanson was fourth with a wind-aided 6.63m (3.6m/s).
Jamaica’s Ackelia Smith competes in the women’s long jump at the Olympics in Paris, France on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
Briana Williams was second in the women’s 100m, running a wind-aided 11.07 seconds (3.3m/s). Natasha Morrison was third in 11.08 seconds and Serena Cole finished fifth in 11.25 seconds as American Kayla White won with 10.99 seconds.
Shericka Jackson ran a personal best 36.13 seconds in the women’s 300m, third best ever by a Jamaican behind Patricia Hall’s 35.69 seconds and Merlene Ottey’s 35.83 seconds. Julien Alfred of St Lucia won with 36.05 seconds, a national best mark.
Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson wins the women’s 200m event of the Stockholm Diamond League athletics meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 2, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Nigel Ellis was second in the men’s 200m in a wind-aided 20.52 seconds (3.5m/s) with sprint hurdler Rasheed Broadbell fourth in 20.79 seconds.
National record holder Danniel Thomas-Dodd was second in the women’s shot put with 18.80m and Lloydricia Cameron fifth with 17.41m as American Maggie Ewen won with 19.25m.
