Shanieka Ricketts

Shanieka Ricketts
Shanieka Ricketts (2017)
nation	Jamaica
birthday	2nd February 1992
place of birth	Morant Bay ,  Jamaica
size	183 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	14.93 m
Trainer	Kerry-Lee Ricketts
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Pan American Games 0 × 1 × 0 × NACAC Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships silver Doha 2019 14.92 m  Commonwealth Games silver Gold Coast 2018 Triple jump  Pan American Games silver Lima 2019 Triple jump NACAC Championships gold San José 2015 Triple jump
last change: October 11, 2019

Shanieka Ricketts , née Shanieka Thomas (born February 2, 1992 in Morant Bay ), is a Jamaican athlete who specializes in the triple jump . She became NACAC triple jump champion in 2016 and took part in the 2016 Summer Olympics for Jamaica .

Career

On June 7, 2013, she started at the championships of the National College Athletic Association in Eugene and won the competition in the triple jump with a distance of 14.14 meters. A year later she was able to successfully defend her NCAA title with a width of 14.00 meters. After she also finished second in the triple jump behind Kimberly Williams at the Jamaican Athletics Championships , she was nominated for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow . There she took the unloved fourth place with a width of 13.85 meters when her compatriot Kimberly Williams won.

After she only finished ninth in the triple jump at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto , she also started at the NACAC Championships in San José, Costa Rican . With a width of 14.23 meters, she won ahead of Ana José and Lynnika Pitts . In addition, she was allowed to take part in the 2015 World Championships in Beijing for Jamaica . After she survived the qualification with a width of 14.05 meters, she finished eleventh and penultimate place in the final with 14.08 meters.

At the beginning of 2016 she was allowed to take part in the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland and started on March 19, 2016 in the triple jump competition, where she finished eighth with a width of 13.95 meters. In the outdoor season, she was able to meet the norm for the 2016 Summer Olympics and was also nominated for the Olympic Games by the Jamaica Olympic Association . In the triple jump qualification she failed with a distance of 14.02 meters.

The following year she took part in the athletics world championships for the second time . At the 2017 World Championships in London , after she had qualified directly for the final with a width of 14.21 meters, she could not quite reach this distance in the final and took eighth place with 14.13 meters. At the end of the 2017/18 indoor season, she took part in the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where she finished tenth in the triple jump competition. Between April 8 and 15, 2018, she took part in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast and won the bronze medal with a width of 14.52 meters behind her compatriot Kimberly Williams and ahead of Thea LaFond .

In 2019, Ricketts became Jamaican triple jump champion. At the Pan American Games in Lima in 2019 , she improved her personal best with 14.77 m for the second time within this year and won the silver medal behind Yulimar Rojas from Venezuela.

Top performances

open air

• Triple jump : 14.93 m on August 29, 2019 in Zurich 
• Long jump : 6.63 m on February 28, 2015 in Kingston 
• High jump : 1.75 m on February 13, 2010 in Kingston 

Hall

• Triple jump : 14.08 m on February 8, 2013 in Albuquerque 
• Long jump : 6.04 m on January 21, 2012 in Nampa 
• High jump : 1.70 m on February 26, 2011 in Albuquerque 

Web links

• Shanieka Ricketts in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Shanieka Ricketts in the results.gc2018.com database