About Kerrica Hill
Born 2005. Kerrica Hill is a Jamaican athletics competitor.
Kerrica Hill (born 6 March 2005) is a Jamaican track and field athlete. She won gold medals in the 100 metres hurdles and the 4 x 100 m relay at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships.
As a 17-year-old she won two gold medals at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, 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.
She retained her world U20 title at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, winning in 12.99 seconds into a -3 m/s headwind, ahead of Mia Wild of Croatia and Australian Delta Amidzovski.
She qualified from her 100 metres hurdles semi-final at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in 12.77 seconds, before placing fourth in the final in 12.69 seconds (+0.1 m/s). She lowered her personal best to 12.54 seconds competing in Switzerland in July 2025. She was subsequently named in the Jamaican squad for the 2025 NACAC Championships in Nassau, The Bahamas. Having joined the Elite Performance Track Club in 2022, she left to move to the MVP Track Club in September 2025.
In March 2026, she ran a personal best 22.80 seconds for the 200 metres at Velocity Fest in Kingston. On 4 April, Hill won the 100 metres hurdles at the Miramar Invitational in 12.81 (+1.0 m/s). On 21 June, Hill placed third overall behind Demisha Roswell and Megan Simmonds in 12.67 seconds for the 100 metres hurdles in the final of the 2026 Jamaican Athletics Championships. She was a finalist in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
Personal bests 60 metres – 7.42 (+0.5 m/s, Kingston 2022) 100 metres – 11.16 (+1.2 m/s, Kingston 2022) 200 metres – 22.80 (+0.5 m/s, Kingston 2026) 100 m hurdles – 12.54 (+0.1 m/s, Luzern 2025) 100 m hurdles (76.2 cm) – 12.71 (+0.8 m/s, Kingston 2022)
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Jamaican athlete
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Kerrica Hill was born on 6 March 2005.
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Kerrica Hill is an athletics competitor.
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