Diamond League: Shericka Jackson smashes meeting record to win 200m in Xiamen

Two-time 200m world champion Shericka Jackson produced a dominant show to win the 200m Diamond League occasion in Xiamen.

Jackson smashed the meeting record and narrowly missed out on the world lead by 0.01 seconds, ending with a time of 21.87 seconds to declare the victory.

The Jamaican led from the off and confirmed his energy on the bend to draw back.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo (22.04) and Anavia Battle (22.29) each produced season’s bests to declare second and third respectively however neither seemed like troubling Jackson.

The 2023 world 100m champion, Sha’Carri Richardson, additionally produced a season’s finest, crossing the road in fourth with a time of twenty-two.38 seconds.

Amy Hunt, Great Britain’s 200m world silver medalist, completed seventh in the sphere of 9.

Elsewhere on Saturday in Xiamen, 18-year-old Chinese athlete Yan Ziyi moved to second place in the ladies’s javelin record books with a shocking effort of 71.74m.

At the age of 17, Yan landed the world junior record. A day after turning 18, her throw on Saturday broke the Diamond League record, the Asian record and the world under-20 record.