Eight Jamaicans on track Thursday morning — 4×400, triple jump, 200m
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce leads a Jamaican contingent of four individual performers and the men’s 4X400 men’s relay team into the sixth day of competition in Moscow, Russia for the 14th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships.
The men’s 4X400 heats begins at 10:05am, the team consists of Javere Bell, Javon Francis, Edino Steele and Rusheen McDonald. They will run out of lane 5.
Kimberley Williams will compete in the women’s triple jump finals at 10:40 am.
At 10:45, Anneisha McLaughlin will go up against Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast in the first women’s 200M semi-final. Patricia Hall will run out of lane 8 in semi-final two, going up against Olympic Champion Allyson Felix, USA, and Nigerian Blessing Okagbare.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, easily the favourite of semi-final 3, will run out of lane 4.
Nickiesha Wilson will face defending champion American Lashinda Demus and world leader Zuzana Hejnova in the women’s 400M hurdles final to begin at 11:45 this morning.