Jamaican hurdler with HBCU ties makes Olympic team

Former Johnson C. Smith hurdler Danielle Williams punched her ticket to Paris for her first-ever Summer time Olympics after her efficiency within the Jamaican Olympic Trials.

She completed second within the 100m hurdle finals, working a 12.53 behind Ackera Nugent, who set a Jamaican nationwide file.

That is the second Olympics in a row to characteristic a CIAA athlete after former Livingstone athlete Quanera Hayes certified for the US workforce within the 2020 Olympic Video games.

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Williams is the reigning 100m hurdles world champion, having received for a second time on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.

The previous Golden Bull is trying to change into the primary athlete to win an Olympic medal within the girls’s 100m hurdles one 12 months after profitable a World Championship within the occasion since Australian athlete Sally Pearson did so in 2012.