Venue: <\/strong>Letzigrund Stadium, Zurich <\/span>Dates:<\/strong> 7-8 September<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n| Coverage: <\/strong>Watch live on BBC Two and BBC Red Button on Wednesday and BBC Two and BBC Three on Thursday<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | Jamaican world champion Shericka Jackson says she is targeting the 34-year-old 200m world record set by American great Florence Griffith-Joyner in Thursday’s Diamond League final.<\/span><\/p>\n Griffith-Joyner won Olympic gold at Seoul 1988 in 21.34 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n “I’m very great at the 200m,” said Jackson with a smile. “I am definitely looking for a fast, fast time.”<\/span><\/p>\n “At the World Championships I had a lot in my legs and was still able to run 21.4 seconds so to come out here, I expect to perform at my best.”<\/span><\/p>\n Jackson played down fears that the timetable for the season finale in Zurich may hamper her.<\/span><\/p>\n She is also competing in the 100m final, 80 minutes before she runs in the longer distance.<\/span><\/p>\n “That recovery is enough for me. I want to challenge myself and I think here is the best place to do it,” she added.<\/span><\/p>\n Jackson revealed that she set her World Championships-winning time as a goal earlier in the season and has since revised it downwards.<\/span><\/p>\n “Before this season I wrote that exact time on a piece of paper,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n “I left it on my trophy stand so every time I step in my house or go to training I know I have that target…. I wanted it so badly.<\/span><\/p>\n “I went back home [after the Worlds] and I wrote another time because I definitely want to go faster and I think I am capable of doing that.<\/span><\/p>\n “If it is not done tomorrow then definitely I come back next year and work even harder.”<\/span><\/p>\n Asked if her new goal would break Joyner-Griffiths’ world record, she replied that it was “definitely round about there”.<\/span><\/p>\n Jackson will take on her friend and compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100m final, with Great Britain’s Daryll Neita also in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n Fraser-Pryce, 35, believes she can end her season by improving on the 10.60-second personal best she set in Lausanne in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n Only two women have ever run faster. Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah clocked 10.54 in the wake of her win in Tokyo, while Griffith-Joyner’s 10.49 world record has remained out of reach since July 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n Fraser-Pryce may not have matched last season’s best but she has hit new levels of consistency. She has run six of the 18 fastest times in history this year.<\/span><\/p>\n “What drives me is that I am at this point of my career, is that I have dreamt of running 10.6 seconds and now being able to do that consistently, I want to challenge myself every time I step to the line,” she said. <\/span><\/p>\n “I am definitely chasing a personal best.”<\/span><\/p>\n Fraser-Pryce also revealed that she is only taking part in Zurich after her five-year son Zyon’s return to school was delayed.<\/span><\/p>\n “It was going to be his first day and Zurich was not going to happen,” she added. <\/span><\/p>\n “I was ready to go home and it was like divine intervention in that I got an email from his school saying they were postponing, so that is why I am here.”<\/span><\/p>\n |
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