Danielle Williams leads J’cans into Millrose Games
TWO-TIME World Athletics Championships 100m hurdles gold medallist Danielle Williams will be one of three Jamaicans who are set to line up in the women’s 60m hurdles event at the 116th Millrose Games at Armory in New York on Sunday.
With the qualifying period for the World Athletics Indoor Championships set to end this weekend, a number of Jamaicans have been competing in indoor meets across the USA and in Europe to be selected to represent Jamaica.
The World Championships Indoor Championships will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, March 1-3.
A total of 15 Jamaicans are set to compete, with former NCAA champion Ackera Nugent and Olympic Games bronze medallist Megan Tapper also lining up against world leader Tia Jones, her American teammate Nia Ali, and Great Britain’s Cindy Sember.
Giano Roberts, Damion Thomas, and Orlando Bennett are down to run the men’s 60m hurdles and will face the American trio of Trey Cunningham, Daniel Roberts and Michael Dickson.
After just being edged by World Championships triple gold medallist Noah Lyles at the New Balance meet in Boston last weekend, Ackeem Blake will hope to go one better when he lines up in the men’s 60m alongside compatriots Shakur Williams and Ryiem Forde.
Americans Christian Coleman and Demek Kemp, as well as Andre deGrasse of Canada, are also down to race.
Shashalee Forbes, who raced three times in Europe last week, will join Briana Williams in the women’s 60m, going up against St Lucia’s Julien Alfred and Americans Tamara Clarke and English Gardner.
Natoya Goule-Toppin will contest the women’s 800m while Kimberly Williamson will line up in the women’s high jump where she will take on World Champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine and American Vashti Cunningham.
In the rarely run 300m, Jamaicans Leah Anderson and Candice McLeod will face off with American Talitha Diggs and Rhasidat Adeleke of Ireland.