The fastest woman alive over 200m Shericka Jackson is set for a return to the track, with the 2025 indoor season now in full swing.
The Jamaican should open her season with a women’s 60m race at the Queen’s/Grace Jackson Development meet at the National Stadium in Kingston on Saturday, 25 January.
It will be her first race since 9 July 2024, when she pulled up injured at the Gyulai István Memorial in Hungary.
Jackson didn’t compete at Paris 2024, The five-time Olympic medallist across four different disciplines at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 in 2021 withdrew from the women’s 100m and 200m events in Paris battling injuries over what she told Olympics.com then was ‘a combination of a lot of stuff’.
The 30-year-old will face compatriot Krystal Sloley, the winner last year, and Nigeria’s 100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan, who is now based in Jamaica, training at the Racers Track Club with Glen Mills, who coached Usain Bolt to eight Olympic gold medals.
Jackson, who works with Stephen Francis over at the MVP Track and Field Club, is hoping to recover her dominating performance over the 200m outdoors, which saw her stretch her unbeaten run from June 2022 until May 2024. Within that two-year period, she dashed to three of the four fastest times in history.
The versatile star of Jamaica’s track and field is an Olympic gold medallist from the sprint relay at Tokyo 2020 in 2021, and is eyeing a return to the World Championships at the end of the season where she’s won four gold medals.
