The 2022 World Championships 100m silver medalist Shericka Jackson faces a powerful subject within the brief dash on the opening occasion of the Wanda Diamond League season in Doha, Qatar, this Friday.
The occasion will characteristic 14 Diamond League disciplines.
Jackson, who was the 2022 World Championships 200m gold medalist, will line up in opposition to Individuals Sha’Carri Richardson, Twanisha Terry, and Abby Steiner, in addition to Nice Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith and New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs, amongst others.
Jackson has a season’s better of 10.82 seconds, whereas Richardson ran a wind-aided 10.57 seconds in Miami final month.
In the meantime, Jamaicans Candice McLeod and Stephenie Ann McPherson are right down to contest the ladies’s 400m in a crack subject which incorporates Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulinho, Barbados’ Sada Williams, in addition to American Shamier Little, amongst others.
The Caribbean may also be represented within the ladies’s 100m hurdles with Puerto Rico’s Olympic Video games champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Jamaica’s Megan Tapper competing in opposition to the likes of Individuals Nia Ali, Alaysha Johnson and Tonea Marshall together with others.
On the lads’s facet, the Dominican Republic’s Alexander Ogando will contest a aggressive 200m occasion with the likes of Fred Kerley, Michael Norman and Kenneth Bednarek of the US, in addition to the Canadian pair of Aaron Brown and Andre De Grasse.
Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez will vie for high honors within the triple bounce, whereas Grenada’s Anderson Peters and Trinidad and Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott are hoping to make their presence felt within the javelin throw.