Thompson, Jackson win 100m titles at Jamaican Olympic trials

KINGSTON: Kishane Thompson won the men´s 100m in 9.77secs, the fastest time in the world this year, and Shericka Jackson dominated the women´s 100m final on Friday at the Jamaican Olympic athletics trials.

Thompson, with a wind of 0.9m/sec, took the title in Kingston with Oblique Seville second in 9.82 and Ackeem Blake third in 9.92 to book their trips to the Paris Olympics.

Thompson, 22, improved upon the year´s prior best, a 9.79 by Kenya´s Ferdinand Omanyala two weeks ago in Nairobi.

After not racing all season, Thompson cruised in the Jamaican trials, running 9.82 in Thursday heats and 9.84 in the semi-finals earlier on Friday.