Twenty-eight Jamaicans will compete in 12 events at the Icahn Stadium in New York City on Saturday.
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The favourite in this event, the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt, set his first ever 100m world record at this stadium in 2008, but he hasn’t been back since. The return of the sprint superstar has drawn a fair share of attention and set high expectations for the meeting. Bolt enters the 200m with a modest season best of 20.13, which he set in his last race at a cold and wet Ostrava Golden Spikes meet late last month. The 28-yeard-old Jamaican will be competing on a lucky track and in warm weather, he is poised to run a big season’s best. Here are the start lists for men and women of Team Jamaica in descending order.
Jamaica’s Sophia Smellie and Anastasia Le-Roy will kick-off the events for the sprint nation in the Women 400m B Race.
Samantha Henry-Robinson and Schillonie Calvert will sprint the Women’s 100m.
Annsert White and Roxroy Cato will compete in the Men’s 400m Hurdles.
Novlene Williams-Mills and Stephenie-Ann McPherson will compete in the Women’s 400m.
26-year-old O’Dayne Richards, Jamaica’s first gold medallist in the shot put at the Commonwealth Games, will complete in the said event.
Jamaica’s Williams sisters Danielle and Shermaine will compete in the Women’s 100m Hurdles.
Sherone Simpson will compete in the Women’s 200m
Nesta Carter and Nickel Ashmeade will compete with one of their top rivals Tyson Gay in the Men’s 100m.
Kimarra McDonald will compete in the Women’s 800m for Team Jamaica.
Julian Forte, Rasheed Dwyer and Usain Bolt will compete for Team Jamaica in the Men’s 200m.
The Junior girls 4 x 400m Relay will obviously be Team USA vs Team Jamaica. Go Vere Tech!
The Junior boys 4 x 400m Relay will also be Team USA vs Team Jamaica. This will be interesting. Go St. Jago!
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