EU­GENE – Ja­maican Sher­i­ca Jack­son com­plet­ed the dou­ble at the Pre­fontaine Clas­sic here Sat­ur­day when she dom­i­nat­ed the women’s 200 me­tres at the sea­son-end­ing Di­a­mond League meet in Ore­gon, USA.

The 29-year-old clocked a new meet record 21.57 sec­onds but failed in her quest to break late Amer­i­can Flo­rence Gif­fith-Joyn­er’s 35-year-old World record of 21.34.

Côte d’Ivoire’s Marie-Josée Ta Lou ran sec­ond in a sea­son-best 22.10 while Ba­hami­an An­thonique Stra­chan clocked 22.16 to be third.

“Fun­ny enough last year one of my goals I wrote that how I want­ed to get two tro­phies,” Jack­son said.

“I didn’t get two tro­phies last year and I rewrote that again, that I want­ed two tro­phies this year.

“I got it and I’m grate­ful. The end of the sea­son. I’m healthy and I ran some fast times. So I’m def­i­nite­ly grate­ful.”

Stra­chan in lane eight stayed with Jack­son, in lane sev­en, un­til the top of the stretch when the reign­ing World cham­pi­on pulled away im­pe­ri­ous­ly.

Olympic cham­pi­on Ja­maican Hansle Parch­ment, mean­while, cap­tured the men’s sprint hur­dles, clock­ing a world-lead­ing 12.93 sec­onds.

He beat three-time reign­ing World cham­pi­on Grant Hol­loway in­to sec­ond, the Amer­i­can stop­ping the clock at 13.06.

“The start wasn’t per­fect, I was re­al­ly think­ing a lot about get­ting a bet­ter start to re­al­ly be a lit­tle bit more com­pet­i­tive,” said the 33-year-old Parch­ment, a sil­ver medal­list at last month’s Bu­dapest World Cham­pi­onships.

“I think I still put it to­geth­er most­ly. Got the PR (per­son­al record), got the win, so I’m very hap­py about that.

“We’re tired, we’ve been com­pet­ing for months now, it’s re­al­ly bril­liant to be able to car­ry this sea­son up un­til the end.”

Ja­maican Ta­jay Gaye fin­ished sec­ond in the men’s long jump, mea­sur­ing 8.22 me­tres be­hind win­ner Si­mon Eham­mer of Switzer­land who leapt the same dis­tance.

CMC