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#2024JAI | Ricketts wins triple jump

Published:Saturday | May 11, 2024 | 9:27 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter -
Jamaica's Shanieka Ricketts executes her first jump in the women’s triple jump during the Jamaica Athletics Invitational at the National Stadium tonight.
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Jamaica's Shanieka Ricketts executes her first jump in the women’s triple jump during the Jamaica Athletics Invitational at the National Stadium tonight.

Five-time Jamaica national champion Shanieka Ricketts stomped her class in the women’s triple jump at the Jamaica Athletics Invitational inside the National Stadium tonight.

Ricketts leapt 14.50 metres ahead of United States of America’s Jasmine Moore, who did 14.28, while Dominica’s Thea Lafond took third as she cut the sand at 14.22.

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