Jamaican athlete Shericka Jackson won the 200m race at the World Athletics Championship, clocking the second-fastest time ever.
The Jamaican who ran with a time of 21.45 became the second fastest woman in history to run 200m.
Jackson is yet to break the (21.34 record set by the late American Florence Griffith Joyner.
“The fastest woman alive, the national and championships record, I cannot complain,” Jackson stated after her race.
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In a past interview, the Jamaican athlete noted that while growing up, she was very slow and would not even feature in the top three.
“When I was at primary school, I was very slow. I never won anything.
“In my last year of high school, I ran in the 200m race but I wanted to win the 400m because I thought it was what he wanted.
“So, I paid close attention and started working hard. So that is when I started realizing that I am good at 400, I need to focus on the four - despite hating the training,” she stated in a past interview.
In 2014 when she was 19, Jackson suffered a setback when she was injured after qualifying for her first major championship at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
At that point, she felt like giving up. However, thanks to the help from her friends and family, she bounced back, going ahead to win her first major championships medals, bronze in the 400m and gold in the 4x400m at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing.
Despite being the fastest woman alive in the 200m race Jackson is not a fan of short-distance races.
“I don’t like sprinting, I will sprint but I don’t like it. It’s so difficult, I tell people every day I give sprinters a lot of credit because whenever I sprint I feel so much pain,” she stated in a past interview.
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