With the indoor season hitting its midway point last weekend, 12 Jamaicans are placed in the top 10 best performances of their respective events. Leading this golden dozen is Danielle Williams who leads the world in the 60m hurdles. Notably, that is the event with the most Jamaicans amongst the world’s top 10 performers.

Williams, 29, zipped 7.75 seconds to win the Tiger Paw Invitational at Clemson, South Carolina to take the world-leading time down from 7.81 by reigning World Indoor champion Kendra Harrison. Tokyo 100 metre hurdles finalist Britany Anderson and World Under 20 champion Ackera Nugent are the other Jamaicans in this top ten in fourth and eighth respectively with times of 7.82 and 7.89 seconds.

All three ladies have new personal bests now and Williams is just 0.01 off Michelle Freeman’s long-standing national record. In addition, Williams, Anderson and Nugent hold lofty positions on the Jamaica all-time list at numbers 2, 3 and 6.

Natoya Goule-Tappin, an Olympic finalist herself, is number 2 on the 800m list at 1.59.62 and Charokee Young sits at number 3 worldwide in the 400m at 51.24.

Briana Williams, the Olympic relay gold medallist, and Olympic 100m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson are fourth and eighth in the performance list for the flat 60m at 7.09 and 7.12 seconds respectively. The time for Jackson came in her first-ever indoor race, contested last week in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Williams is now the joint Jamaica number 7 with no less than Juliet Cuthbert. Jackson is jointly the 10th fastest national of all time.

Reigning Commonwealth triple jump champion Kimberly Williams leapt into 5th in 2022. Williams covered 14.32m.

Chevannie Hanson, Carey McLeod, Lamara Distin and Owayne Owens, appear in the 400m, long jump, high jump and triple jump top 10 listings. Hanson zipped 45.89, with jumpers McLeod, Distin and Owens logging 8.07m, 1,92m and 16.60m respectively to appear at numbers 6, 7 and 10 respectively. Distin, the 2021 NCAA runner-up for Texas A&M University, is now the holder of the Jamaica record.

Hanson rose to 7th in the Jamaica all-time indoor 400m list and Owens is now the number 10 Jamaican all time.

In addition, Nathon Allen, Chris Taylor, Leon Clarke, Chris-Ann Gordon and Goule appear in the top 10 in events that won’t be contested at the World Indoor Championships next month in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Allen and Taylor clocked 32.54 and 32.56 seconds respectively in separate 300m races and moved to 4th and 6th fastest this season.

Clarke has the fourth-fastest 500m time of the season – 1 minute 01.76 seconds. Goule is sixth on the 1000m list at 2 minutes 41.03 seconds and 2016 Olympian Gordon is number 7 at 600m at 1 minute 28.28 seconds.