Topic: Bershawn Jackson

Fountain leads Ennis at athletics worlds

Reigning world champion Jessica Ennis found herself trailing American rival Hyleas Fountain after the opening two events of the heptathlon at the world championships on Monday.Fountain, the Olympic silver medallist denied the chance to compete at the 2009 Berlin worlds because ...

Dix nabs sprint double, Jeter denied

Walter Dix will get two world title shots at Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt after wrapping up a sprint double at the US athletics championships with a 200m triumph on Sunday.Dix, a double bronze medallist at the 2008 Olympics, won the ...

Felix sets year's best in first Diamond League meeting

DOHA (Reuters) - A sultry breeze blowing in from the Arabian Gulf could not prevent three-times world 200 meters champion Allyson Felix from setting a season's best of 50.33 in the 400 at the opening Diamond League meeting Friday.The American ...

Campbell-Brown claims Kansas crown

Reigning Olympic women's 200-meter champion Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica has won the 200m crown at the Kansas Relays, where Lauryn Williams and Bershawn Jackson also took titles.Campbell-Brown, who won Olympic 200 gold at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics ...

'Ouch,' Exclaims Ritzenhein

Ritzenhein can certainly handle the 13.1-mile distance; he was a 2009 World Half-Marathon bronze medalist. The ING Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half-Marathon on Sunday had 18,700 entrants, more than double what it would have attracted five years ago when it ...

Bolt equals season's fastest 100m in return

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Jamaican triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt equalled the year's best 100 meters as he won his first race in six weeks in 9.82 seconds at Lausanne's Diamond League meeting on Thursday.The world record holder had ...

Asafa Powell sparkles in Diamond League opener

DOHA (Reuters) - Jamaica's Asafa Powell recovered from a poor start to take the plaudits in the men's 100 meters at the opening Diamond League meet in steamy Qatar on Friday.The former world record holder, who will face Olympic and ...
Americans Lolo Jones, Bershawn Jackson win hurdles races at Diamond League opener in DohaAmerican runners Lolo Jones and Bershawn Jackson won their hurdles events Friday at the inaugural Diamond League meet.Jones held off a challenge from Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada to ...

US indoors produces 'solid' World team - coach

Two-time Olympic hurdles silver medallist Terrence Trammell was a winner Sunday as the US indoor athletics championships produced a "Sprinter Ivory Williams, Trammell, 400m runners Debbie Dunn and Bershawn Jackson and long jumper Brittney Reese delivered the most telling triumphs.Williams, Trammell ...

US through to men's 4x400m relay final

Defending champions the United States booked their berth in the final of the 4x400m relay at the World Athletics Championships after winning their heat here on Saturday.Just minutes after seeing the US women's 4x100m relay team crash out, the quartet ...