Ackera Nugent of Jamaica competes within the 100m hurdles semi-finals throughout the Olympic Video games on the Stade de France in Saint-Denis on August 9, 2024. (Picture: Naphtali Junior)
5 high 10 ranked athletes have been included within the 22-strong Jamaican group named by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Affiliation (JAAA) for the World Athletics World Indoor Championships to be held in Nanjing, China, from March 21 to 23.
Lengthy jumper Tajay Gayle, dash hurdler Ackera Nugent, sprinters Jodean Williams and Rohan Watson, in addition to excessive jumper Raymond Richards will carry Jamaica’s hopes for medals on the three-day championships.
Staff Supervisor Trevor Campbell instructed the Sunday Observer that the group was chosen “from these athletes who made themselves out there and confirmed the curiosity”.
Eleven males and 7 ladies have been named in particular person occasions, whereas there shall be a males’s 4x400m relay group.
It was reported final week that MVP Monitor Membership Head Coach Stephen Francis stated Olympic Video games males’s 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson, who was ranked fourth on the earth within the 60m, wouldn’t be out there as he had “picked up a niggle in coaching” and must relaxation “for a number of days”.
The group that was revealed on Saturday gave the impression to be stronger within the area occasions, and Campbell agreed, saying, “We despatched out invites to the varied athletes and camps and these have been those who responded.”
Additionally included within the group have been 5 US School-based athletes, probably the most named to any nationwide group throughout the college semester, with some competing on the Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Affiliation (NCAA) Division 1 Indoor Championships this previous weekend.
Joanne Reid of the College of Arkansas, Jerome Campbell of the College of Northern Colorado, Demario Prince and Demar Francis of Baylor College, and Kimar Farquharson of Texas A&M College have been named.
Gayle, the 2019 world champion, is ranked second on the earth within the males’s lengthy leap, and he shall be joined by Wayne Pinnock, a back-to-back lengthy leap silver medalist on the World Athletics Championships in 2023 and Paris Olympics final 12 months.
Nugent is ranked fourth within the ladies’s 60m hurdles, Williams is fifth within the ladies’s 60m sprint, Richards is fifth within the males’s excessive leap, and he may have Olympic Video games finalist Romaine Beckford with him.
Former males’s 100m nationwide champion Watson is eighth worldwide within the males’s 60m sprint.
Rusheen McDonald, who gained a bronze medal within the males’s 400m ultimately 12 months’s World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, was named within the group in addition to Olympic Video games males’s shot put bronze medal winner Rajindra Campbell, who did not make a authorized mark final 12 months in Scotland.
Staff Jamaica
Males
Rohan Watson
Nishion Ebanks
Jerome Campbell
Demario Prince
Rusheen McDonald
Jasauna Dennis
Demar Francis
Tarees Rhoden
Kimar Farquharson
Romaine Beckford
Raymond Richards
Tajay Gayle
Wayne Pinnock
Jordan Scott
Rajindra Campbell
Ladies
Jodean Williams
Natasha Morrison
Ackera Nugent
Amoi Brown
Leah Anderson
Joanne Reid
Lloydricia Cameron
Officers-
Trevor Campbell – supervisor
Craig Richards – assistant supervisor
Maurice Wilson – technical chief
Paul Francis – coach
Kerrylee Ricketts – coach
Warren Blake – physician
Damion Rowe, Oral Thompson, Troy Evans – therapeutic massage therapists
