LAWRENCE, Kan. - 400-meter hurdles World Outdoor Champion, Bershawn Jackson, is set to run the same event at the 81^st annual Kansas Relays April 16-19. Jackson was the 2005 World Outdoor Champion in the event and is the three-time defending champion in the Invitational 400-meter hurdles at the Kansas Relays.

Jackson will compete in the Invitational 400-meter hurdles scheduled for Saturday at 4:35 p.m. The 24-year-old has won the event four times in the last five years. In addition to winning the event at the last three Relays, he also took home the title in 2003. With his victory in 2006, Jackson set the meet record with a finish of 48.34, breaking the record he had set a year earlier.

USA Track and Field considers Jackson "the newest phenom over the intermediate hurdles." A native of Miami, Fla., Jackson won the 2003 USA Outdoor Championship and the 2005 USA Indoor 400-meter Championship. He was the USA Outdoor runner-up in 2006.