Ackera Nugent Leads 20 Jamaican Athletes at Ed Murphey Track Classic

Ackera Nugent is one of six Olympics-bound athletes among a wider group of 20 Jamaicans set to compete at the Ed Murphey Track Classic in Memphis, Tennessee.

The three-day event, part of the American Track League Series, began on Thursday and runs until Saturday.

It features reigning world 100m hurdles champion Danielle Williams, national men’s 200m champion Bryan Levell, Orlando Bennett, triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert, and Chanice Porter, who will be making her second trip to the Olympics.

Nugent, having set the national 100m hurdles record of 12.28 seconds at Jamaican trials, will contest the women’s 100 metre event today.

She will compete alongside Briana Williams, Jonielle Smith, and Shockoria Wallace, who are also bidding to make the final.

Williams, making her Olympic debut, is set to compete in her specialty, the women’s 100m hurdles, where she faces a competitive line-up that includes Americans Christina Clemons and Alia Armstrong.

Levell leads three other Jamaicans in the men’s 100m – Yohan Blake, Nigel Ellis, and Kadrian Goldson. Bennett, a second-place finisher at the National Championships, is one of four Jamaicans – Damion Thomas, Odario Phillips, and LaFranz Campbell – in the men’s 110m hurdles.

Also listed to compete are national record holder Navasky Anderson in the men’s 800m Invitational and World Championship finalist and relay medallist Candice McLeod in the women’s 400m.

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