Olympian, Jasmine Abrams kicked off her February activities in fine style on Sunday by lowering her national indoor 60m record in her second race for the season.
The USA born sprinter, clocked at 7.26s in a win at a meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico to set the new record.
The previous record she set in January of 2020 was 7.32s at the Bob Pollock Invitational at Clemson’s Indoor Track in South Carolina.
Before that, the previous record of 7.41s was held by Brenessa Thompson who had set that time back in 2016 at the Reveille Invitational in Texas.
In an invited comment, Abrams, 27, stated that “I’m happy and grateful to have broken the national record again. My goal that race was to execute a better race than I did in my season opener back on January 21st and that’s exactly what I did.”
Abrams along with her sister, Aliyah was part of Guyana’s contingent at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Quizzed on her goals for the 2022 season, Abrams stated: “My goal is to stay healthy, qualify for the World Indoors and Outdoors, break the 100m record and just have fun doing the sport that I love.”
In an update, Abrams stated that she has changed coaches since the Olympic Games last August and her sister and training partner, Travis Collins have each qualified for the World Indoor Championships scheduled for March 18-20 in Serbia.
“There are also a few other athletes that are close to the standard and aiming to qualify for indoors as well. Jeremy Bascom in the 60m, Andrea Foster in the 800m and Arinze Chance in the 400m” she concluded.
