Hurdler Williams heads eight Jamaicans for Sunday’s Millrose Games

DANIELLE WILLIAMS, the world leader in the women’s 60 metres hurdles, will be one of eight Jamaicans in action at the 118th staging of the Millrose Indoor Games in New York on Sunday.

Williams, who sits atop the event following her world-leading 7.87 seconds to win at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 24, will be gunning for her third win of the season. She also won at the Clemson University indoor meet earlier this season.

Megan Simmonds, who finished sixth at the New Balance meet, along with Oneika Wilson of Clemson University, will be the other Jamaicans in the line-up.

Following her second-place finish to Williams in a season’s best 7.92, two-time World Indoor champion Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas will also be among the starters along with the United States duo of Christina Clemons, who has a season’s best of 7.94, and Gabrielle Cunningham with a season’s best of 8.00.

Two other Jamaican women, Kemba Nelson and Natoya Goule-Toppin, will also compete at the meet. Nelson will contest the 60 metres while Goule-Toppin will line up in the 1000 metres.

Ackeem Blake, fresh off his success in the 60 metres at the Boston meet, heads three Jamaican men down for the meet. Blake, who won in 6.53 in Boston, will be joined by Bryan Levell, who has a season’s best of 6.54 after finishing third in his heat two weeks ago at the JAAA/Puma Fuller Anderson Meet at GC Foster College.

Rajindra Campbell will round out the Jamaican contingent at the meet. He will contest the men’s shot put.