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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Richards wins Jamaica 200m in Olympic qualifying time

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Clayton Clarke
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Jereem Richards

Jereem Richards

T&T sprint ace Jereem Richards booked his tick­et to this year's Olympic Games when he stormed to vic­to­ry in the men's 200 me­tres at the Rac­ers Grand Prix in Kingston, Ja­maica on Sat­ur­day in an Olympic qual­i­fy­ing time of 20.13 sec­onds.

The 2022 World In­door 400m cham­pi­on bet­tered the 20.16 stan­dard to earn a lane at the Ju­ly 26-Au­gust 11 Paris Olympics in France. The 2018/2022 Com­mon­wealth Games 200m gold medal­list came off the bend trail­ing Niger­ian Udo­di Chu­di On­wuzurike but pro­duced his trade­mark late surge to take the lead 40m be­fore the line to se­cure his sec­ond 200m win for the 2024 sea­son. On­wuzurike was run­ner-up in 20.27 with Ja­maica's Bryan Lev­el in third with 20.48.

Richards, speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia on Sun­day morn­ing as he left Ja­maica, was pleased with the win.

"It was a sol­id run. I am sat­is­fied with where I am at right now. I am a bit stronger than I am speedy, but I trust in God and I trust in my coach­es when the time comes I will be able to run what I think I am ful­ly ca­pa­ble of run­ning. I thank God I was able to come away with a vic­to­ry and ac­quire the Olympic stan­dard but fin­ish a healthy race," said Richards.

He added that his sec­ond 200m vic­to­ry for the year was mo­ti­vat­ing.

"I feel good about hav­ing a sec­ond win. It gives me con­fi­dence. This type of win helps build your con­fi­dence and I am ex­cit­ed for the rest of the sea­son."

Richards, the 2017 World Out­door Cham­pi­onships 4x400 gold medal­list won the half-lap sprint at the Bermu­da Grand Prix on April 23 in a wind-as­sist­ed time of 20.49. Richards copped sil­ver at the At­lanta Games 200m (straight) on May 18 in 20.04.

Richards is next set to run at the New Yorke Grand Prix on June 9.

Ja­maican Olique Serville thrilled the home fans by win­ning the men's 100m in a world-lead­ing and per­son­al best time of 9.82. Serville de­feat­ed reign­ing World 100m/200m/4x100m champ Noah Lyles of the USA (9.85) and Kenya's Fer­di­nand Omanyala (10.02).

Julien Al­fred blazed to the women's 100m ti­tle in a St Lu­cian record of 10.78. Ja­maicans Lanae-Ta­va Thomas (women's 200m-22.36), Stacey-Ann Williams (women's 400m-50.86) and Jay­don Hi­b­bert (men's triple jump-17.75) all record­ed wins.

World In­door 60m hur­dles cham­pi­on and world record hold­er De­vynne Charl­ton of the Ba­hamas land­ed the women's 100m hur­dles in 12.64.

Fred­er­ick's twin sis­ters, Sanaa and Sole, were in sparkling form on the week­end as they fin­ished 1-2 in the Girls High School 100m at the Ed­win Moses Leg­ends Meet in At­lanta, Geor­gia on Fri­day (May 31).

Sanaa was first across the line in 11.41 ahead of Sole (11.50) as the pair set new per­son­al bests and bet­tered the World Un­der-20 Cham­pi­onships women's 100m stan­dard of 11.78. The duo pre­vi­ous­ly at­tained the World U-20 200m stan­dard of 24.35 at the Carif­ta Games in Grena­da on March 31.

Tyra Git­tens was third in the women's long jump with a dis­tance of 6.51m. The 2021 Tokyo Olympics 10th plac­er fin­ished be­hind Amer­i­c­as Tiffany Flinn (6.71) and Sha'keela Saun­ders (6.53).


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