Shanieka Ricketts competes in the triple jump at the National Trials at the National Stadium on Saturday. (Photo: Naftali Jr.)
Shaneeka Ricketts recorded a season best in the girls triple jump, Malik James King broke 48.00 for the second time in the boys’ 400m hurdles and Andrew Hudson just missed out on the podium in the boys’ 200m.
U.S. champion Rasheed Broadbell was scheduled to compete in the 110-meter hurdles but did not compete.
Ricketts jumped 14.67 meters (1.3 m/s), bettering her previous personal best of 14.58 meters and beating A’Keria Smith’s 14.30 meters (1.3 m/s). Cuba’s Diamond League leader Leyanis Pérez-Hernández won the fifth round with a season-best jump of 14.96 meters (1.3 m/s).
James King took fourth place in 47.73 seconds, his second time under 48.00 in the last three weeks and trailing the three fastest runners in the history of the meet.
Rai Benjamin won in 46.67 seconds, followed by Karsten Warholm in 46.73 and Allison dos Santos in 47.18. Hudson won the 200 metres in 20.43 seconds (0.6 metres per second), while Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo won comfortably in 19.87, ahead of Alexander Ogando in 20.02 and Tharsis Gracious Ologotto in 20.32.
