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National champions Shericka Jackson and Danniel Thomas-Dodd secured medals on Thursday’s seventh day of competition at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha. In one of the greatest ever women’s 400m races and the race of the championships so far, Jackson fought her way to a bronze medal when she clocked a personal best of 49.47 seconds in the women's 400m final behind Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain who won in a world-leading 48.14 seconds and Olympic champion Shauna Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas second in an Area Record 48.37.
Jamaica’s other medal on the day came when Danniel Thomas-Dodd captured a silver in the women's shot put. The 26-year-old, who is the national record holder, threw 19.47m to finish second in the event.
This is Thomas-Dodd's first World Championships medal and the first for any Jamaican woman in this event at the World Championships. She had finished fourth in the event at the last World Championships in London, England in 2017.
Defending champion Lijiao Gong from China won the event with a mark of 19.55m while third went to Christina Schwantitz of Germany with 19.17m.
Jamaica remains third on the medal table with 2 gold, 3 silver and a bronze. The table is being headed by the United States with 8 gold, 8 silver and 2 bronze.
Meanwhile, 2015 World Championship bronze medalist O'Dayne Richards missed out on a spot in the men's shot put final while the nation will be involved in two finals on Friday's 8th day of competition. After finishing fifth in the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru, Richards was looking to improve in Doha and put himself in medal contention.
But the 30 year old had a disappointing turnout in the field as his throw of 20.07 metres placed him 12th in the qualification Group "A" and 22nd overall out of the 34 competitors. Friday’s action will also see Rushell Clayton hunting Jamaica's seventh medal of the championships in the final of the women's 400m hurdles.
Clayton ran 54.17 to win her semi-final on Wednesday and will line up in lane five in the final at 1:30pm. The 26 year old will battle with world record holder Dalilah Muhammed who will start just on the outside in lane six.
The duo of Akeem Bloomfield and Demish Gaye will also line up in a final as they turn their attention to the men's 400m finale at 2:20pm. The one lap event will feature five men from the Caribbean as Kirani James of Grenada, Machel Cedenio of Trinidad and Tobago and Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas will also be putting themselves in the mix for a podium finish.
However, the first set of Jamaicans in action on Friday will be the heats of the women's 4x100m at 12:49 pm.
The nation will line up in heat two from lane eight and will need to finish in the top three to book a spot in Saturday's final. At 1:05 the men’s equivalent will take the spotlight with Jamaica in heat one and they will run from lane 7.
Meanwhile, Technical Leader Donald Quarrie revealed that with injuries ravaging the men's sprint relay pool, the team is only left with four athletes run. “it’s a good four and we are hoping that by having them run the heats they’ll get the stick around so that by the final they’ll have excellent passes which will make a big difference because it’s going to be a competitive event
The four we are working on are Yohan (Blake), Tyquendo (Tracey), Rasheed Dwyer and Oshane Bailey,” said Quarrie.
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