Fastest woman alive in 200m confirms participation in Stockholm Diamond League

ATHLETICS Fastest woman alive in 200m confirms participation in Stockholm Diamond League

Abigael Wafula 18:54 - 29.03.2024

The fastest woman alive in the 200m has confirmed participation in the Diamond League Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.

The world’s fastest woman alive in the 200m, Shericka Jackson has confirmed participation in the Diamond League Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden on Sunday 2 June.

The Jamaican is ranked number one in the world at the distance after the time she ran to win the 200m at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary to successfully defend her title that she won back in Eugene, Oregon.

She won silver in the 100m at the World Championships in Eugene in 2022 and Budapest in 2023. Jackson is also the reigning Diamond League champion in both the 100m and 200m after winning the finals in Eugene late last summer.

Jackson is one of the leading entrants in the event and will be joined by reigning World 400m Hurdles champion Femke Bol.

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Bol last year erased the 41-year-old and the world's oldest world record in running (400 meters) and as she heads to Stockholm, she will run her special event 400m hurdles.

"I am happy to be back in Stockholm where I have good memories from my last race where I set the stadium record 52.27 two years ago,” she said.

In Budapest, Bol won gold completely unchallenged in the 400m hurdles and also led her country to a gold medal in the women's 4x400 m after a superb closing stretch where she sped past both the USA and Jamaica in the final stretch.

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