Kerrica Hill (born 6 March 2005) is a Jamaican track and field

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. She won gold medals in the

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and the 4 x 100 m relay at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships. Prior to this, she had won relay gold at the 2021 World U20 Championships.

Career

Kerrica Hill attended

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in Jamaica. She was competing for that institution when she broke the world under-18 best (76.2 cm barriers) for the

100 m hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is p ...

, recording 12.71 seconds at the ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Champs in

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in April 2022. The 17-year-old won two gold medals at the

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, Colombia. She triumphed in the 100 m hurdles (senior height barriers) with a time of 12.77 seconds, setting new championship record and her second world U18 best in the process. In addition, she was part of women's 4 x 100 m relay team which broke the world U20 record with 42.59 s to win gold. Hill set in her individual event three of the five fastest U20 times of the season. Speculation followed soon after the championships that she could be about to turn professional.

Personal bests

* 60 metres – 7.42 (+0.5 m/s,

] 2022) *

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– 11.16 (+1.2 m/s,

2022) *

– 12.75 (-0.1 m/s,

2023) ** 100 m hurdles (76.2 cm) – 12.71 (+0.8 m/s,

2022)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Kerrica 2005 births Living people Athletes from Kingston, Jamaica 21st-century Jamaican women Jamaican female hurdlers World Athletics U20 Championships winners