Jamaica's Shericka Jackson is one of the rare athletes who specializes in 100 m, 200 m, and 400 m disciplines.
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Shericka Jackson is one of the rare athletes who specializes in 100 m, 200 m, and 400 m disciplines. She is ranked as one of the top track and field athletes in the world right now. She is the current world no.1 in women’s 200 m and no. 2 in the women’s 100 m and overall rankings according to the World Athletics rankings. She is the reigning world outdoor champion after winning the gold medal in Eugene 2022 in the women’s 200m race. She also claimed three medals at the Tokyo Olympics 2020, including the gold in the women’s 4X100 m relay and two bronze medals in the women’s 100 m and 4 X 400 m relay events.
Her personal best times in the 100-meter, 200-meter, and 400-meter races are 10.71, 21.45, and 49.47, respectively. Shericka originally preferred the 400-meter sprint, but in 2021 she changed her event preference and quickly found success in the 100 and 200 metre races. She has competed in the Olympics twice and has collected five medals, including a gold in the 4 X 100 m relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Furthermore, she holds eight medals from the World Championships. In 2017, Puma signed her. Jackson is quite active on social media and has 145K followers on Instagram.
She was born on July 16, 1994, in Saint Ann, Jamaica, to parents Diana Llewellyn and Desmond Jackson. The parents of Shericka are no longer married. Diane Christie, her mother, is married to Karl Christie. She has good relations with her step father as well. She has a brother named Ian Jackson. Jackson is close friends with another Jamaican Olympian named Candice McLeod. McLeod represented Jamaica in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 and won the bronze medal in 4X400 m relay event, alongside Jackson. She competes in the 400m discipline, having won the World Championships’ 2022 silver medal in the women’s 4X400 m relay.
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No, Shericka Jackson is single as of January 2023.
No, Shericka Jackson doesn’t have a child.
Shericka Jackson is presently single and and is currently focusing on her career. There is no information regarding past relationships of Jackson.
