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Shericka Jackson pulls up, falls in 200m at Lausanne Diamond League
Shericka Jackson (Photo: Garfield Robinson)
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August 21, 2026

Shericka Jackson pulls up, falls in 200m at Lausanne Diamond League

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s Olympic Games and World Championship medallist Shericka Jackson failed to complete the women’s 200m on Friday’s Wanda Diamond League Athletissima Lausanne at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise after she pulled up just after coming off the curve and crashed to the track.

Jackson, who had competed just once since late June and who had expressed doubts about her fitness on Thursday, got off to a good start and was among the leaders when she pulled up and fell to the track.

Meanwhile, World Championships medallists Rushell Clayton and Orlando Bennett just missed places on the podium after they were fourth in their respective events.

Clayton ran 53.65 seconds as Slovakia’s Emma Zapletalova won her fifth straight Diamond League race, running 52.41 seconds, to finish ahead of American Anna Cockrell- 53.15 seconds with Paulien Coukuyt finishing third with a Belgian national record 53.28 seconds.

Bennett ran 13.38 seconds (-0.5m/s) in the 110m hurdles that was won by American Jamal Britt in 13.13 seconds after world leader Ja’Kobi Tharpe hit a hurdle midway the race and finished at the back of the pack.

Cuba’s Kendry L Menendez was second with 13.20 seconds and Swiss record holder Jason Joseph was third with 13.29 seconds.

Scott, the recently minted Commonwealth Games champion, was fifth in the men’s triple jump with a best on the day of 16.86m (-0.5m/s) as

Portugal’s European Championships silver medalist Pedro Pichardo won with 17.44m (-1.0m/s).

Algeria’s Mohammed Yasser Triki was second with a wind-aided 17.43m (2.7m/s) with European champion Andy Diaz Hernandez of  Italy third with 17.20m (-0.5m/s).

Wayne Pinnock was the best placed Jamaican in the men’s long jump with 8.01m (1.6m/s) for sixth place with Commonwealth Games gold medallist Tajay Gayle placing  ninth with 7.70m (0.7m/s) after three foul jumps.

World leader and four-time European champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece won with a wind-aided 8.24m (2.1m/s), but also had a second best jump of 8.17m (1.2m/s) that was also good enough for the win.

Swiss record holder Simon Ehammer was next with 8.13m (1.3m/s) and Luka Boskovic of Serbia third with 8.07m (0.5m/s).

National champion Demisha Roswell was seventh in the 100m hurdles with 13.03 seconds (-0.2m/s) as American Masai Russell extended her season-long unbeaten run by running a meet record 12.27 seconds, under the previous record 12.34 seconds set in 2022 by Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho Quinn.

Nadine Visser of the Netherlands was second with 12.42 seconds and American Alyasha Johnson was third with 12.29 seconds.

 

-Paul A Reid

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