Athletics World Cup: Enjoying globe record over 200 meters briefly: Shericka Jackson wins gold with fable time
The Jamaican Shericka Jackson stormed into a World Cup title over 200 m and scraped the globe document of the legendary Florence-Grandh Joyner.
The 28-year-old won in Eugene in 21.45 seconds as well as, with the second-rate time, remained only eleven hundredths over the 34-year-old document of the American that passed away in 1998.
Behind Jackson, 100 m world champion Sherry-Ann Fraser-Pryce won silver in 21.81 as well as missed out on the World Mug double.
She had recently achieved this in 2013.
Jackson had actually become 2nd in the 100 m final.
Bronze won the British safeguarding champ Dinah Asher-Smith (22.01) on Thursday.
Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah (Jamaica) was only seventh (22,39).
Jessica-Bianca Wessolly (Mannheim) was gotten rid of in the semi-finals, Sophia Scrap (LG Rhein-Wied).
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