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For those who have watched the Netflix series, Sprint: The World’s Fastest Humans, cheering for Jamaican Shericka Jackson will be easy. The two-time world 200m champion will double at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. She won the 100m and 200m events at the Jamaican Olympic Trials at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica.

Jackson ran a season-best time of 22.29 in the 200m. She ran 10.84 to win the 100m event.

Jackson had a slow start, but as she is known to do ran the final third of the race to drop the entire field from mid-pack. She passed Lanae-Tava Thomas who finished second in a new personal best of 22.34. Niesha Burgher also ran a best with her 22.39 second run to complete the podium at the event.

Jackson is the second-fastest 200m runner all-time behind only Florence Griffith Joyner. Joyner still holds the record at 21.34 from 1988. She also set the 100m record which continues to stand at 10.49.

The 29-year-old Jackson clocked 21.41 during the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships to win gold. Jackson took silver in Budapest behind Sha’Carri Richardson clocking her personal best of 10.65.

While Jackson’s talent seems to favour the 200m over the 100m, Richardson leans the other way, but Richardson’s win was still a shock in Budapest. Jackson wants double gold and she wants Griffith Joyner’s world record in the 200m

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