Jackson earns bronze in first global event since injury
Shericka Jackson was forced to settle for the bronze medal in the women's 200 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, as Melissa Jefferson-Wooden claimed the event inside the Japan National Stadium in a time of 21.68 seconds.
Jackson, bidding for a hat-trick of consecutive gold medals in the half-lap race, came off the bend already behind the American 100m winner from earlier in the week, and was then overhauled by the fast-finishing Great Britain youngster, Amy Hunt, in the closing stages.
The Jamaican sprinting star was bidding for a third straight title, after success in both Eugene and Budapest, but still added to her World Championship tally of 11 medals of various colours and at different distances.
Though the race was in Japan's National Stadium, where Jackson won Olympic Gold at the Games held in 2021 because of COVID, it was not to be in 2025.
Antonique Strachan, from the Bahamas, had set nerves tingling with a false start, for which she was disqualified, at the first attempt to get the race going.
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