Morrison regaining her best form

February 12, 2020
 World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (right) wins the women’s 60 metres ahead of Natasha Morrison at the Milo Western Relays held at GC Foster College in Spanish Town last Saturday.
World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (right) wins the women’s 60 metres ahead of Natasha Morrison at the Milo Western Relays held at GC Foster College in Spanish Town last Saturday.

Sprinter Natasha Morrison is coming back. That's the clear indication seen in the form shown by the 2015 World Championship 100 metre finalist so far in 2020.

After two trips to the track at last Saturday's Western Relays, Morrison was smiling and looking ahead.

"It is going great so far. I'm getting in the training and right now I'm injury free so I'm looking forward for Olympics," chimed the 2015 World 4x100 gold medallist at the end of a day she started with a second-place finish to the great Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce over 60 metres.

Glowing after a unhurried but victorious anchor leg for Sprintec Track Club in the women's 4x100, she said she was on her way to regaining her best form. "Yes I'm coming back. I had some problems but I'm working on it and my weak areas so let's see this season what I can produce," Morrison said.

Morrison's stats

She was at best in the semi-final of the 100 at the 2015 Worlds, churning out a personal best of 10.96 seconds and then taking 7th in the final won by Fraser Pryce. She hurried the second leg of the relay to help Jamaica to the gold medals in a national record time of 41.07 seconds.

She was a 100 metre semi-finalist in 2017 100 and took a relay bronze as consolation.

She was part of the UTech/MVP crew after leaving Glengoffe High School but changed coached twice and landed at Sprintec where her training is directed by Maurice Wilson.

Since then, she got to the 2018 Commonwealth Games 100 final and last year, she reached the Pan-American Games 100 final and ran the final leg in the World Championship relay heats. Jamaica won the final, earning Morrison another big time gold medal.

Her individual track excursions this year have yielded an encouraging set of 60 metre times topped by her 7.24 second run into a headwind at the Grace Jackson/Queens Invitational last month. That ranks as a lifetime best for Morrison.

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