MONA­CO—Reign­ing world 200 me­tres cham­pi­on, Ja­maican Sh­er­ic­ka Jack­son, will launch her Di­a­mond League cam­paign in next month’s sea­son-open­er in Do­ha when she runs the 100 me­tres.

The 28-year-old, who has emerged over the last year as one of the globe’s most dom­i­nant sprint­ers, will line up along­side the likes of for­mer world 200m cham­pi­on Di­na Ash­er-Smith.

The Do­ha meet­ing will run off on May 5 at the Qatar Sports Club.

Jack­son won her first in­di­vid­ual world ti­tle last year in Ore­gon when she raced to a record 21.45 sec­onds, ahead of com­pa­tri­ot Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce and British star Ash­er-Smith.

She fol­lowed home Fras­er-Pryce for sil­ver in the 100m.

Jack­son has al­ready sig­nalled her in­ten­tions ahead of the new sea­son, clock­ing a world-lead­ing 10.45 at the MVP Ve­loc­i­ty Fest 13 in Kingston last week.

“Af­ter start­ing my sea­son with a few 400m races, I’m ex­cit­ed to drop down in dis­tance to race over 100m in Do­ha,” said Jack­son, the reign­ing Di­a­mond League 200m cham­pi­on.

“I know I’m in good shape af­ter run­ning my quick­est 400m since 2019 this year, but now it’s time to sharp­en up and run re­al­ly fast.”

Last year, Jack­son fin­ished sec­ond in the 200 me­tres at Do­ha, with Ash­er-Smith fin­ish­ing third and Amer­i­can Gabrille Thomas clinch­ing vic­to­ry.

Jack­son will bring a strong CV to Do­ha. She is the first ath­lete ever to win World Cham­pi­onship medals in the 100m, 200m and 400m – the lat­ter event bring­ing her bronze in Bei­jing in 2015 and in Do­ha four years ago.

She is al­so the first Ja­maican to dip be­low 11 sec­onds in the 100m, un­der 22 sec­onds in the half-lap and un­der 50 sec­onds in the 400m.

Jack­son has a 100m per­son­al best of 10.71, post­ed at the Mona­co Di­a­mond League last year.

The Di­a­mond League will fea­ture 13 meets be­fore con­clud­ing Sep­tem­ber 17. (CMC)