#WorldChamps2023: Jackson runs blistering 21.41 for 200m gold
Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson has underlined her status as the fastest living woman on Earth after blazing to a new lifetime best, national and Championship record of 21.41 seconds in the final of the women’s 200m at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Jackson, who became the second fastest woman of all time in Eugene, Oregon, last year, lowered her Championship and national records of 21.45 seconds.
This is the second fastest women’s 200m in the history of the sport, as Jackson inches closer to Florence Griffith Joyner’s world record of 21.34 seconds set at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
She has won Jamaica’s third gold medal of the Championships.
The fourth fastest woman of all time, Gabby Thomas of America ran 21.81 seconds for silver.
Meanwhile, World 100m champion, Sha’Carri Richardson, also of America, stormed to a new personal best of 21.92 seconds for bronze.
