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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (née Fraser; born December 27, 1986) is a Jamaican track and field sprinter competing in the 60 metres, 100 m and 200 m. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time.
At the Jamaican Championship in June she placed 3rd and 2nd in the 100 m and 200 m respectively in times of 10.89 s and 22.05. She went on to win a bronze medal in the 100 m at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene behind Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson. She finished 7th in the 200 m. She picked up a silver medal in the 4 x 100 m.
She won another silver medal in the 4x100 m relay final, along with her teammates Natasha Morrison, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shashalee Forbes. [ 3 ] [ 11 ] Before the World Championships, Jackson had set a 100 m personal best of 10.65 s at the Jamaican trials, moving her up to joint fifth on the all-time top list .
Specializing in the 100 meters, Fraser-Pryce won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the event in 2008 and 2012 and finished second at the Tokyo Games three years ago.
The 35-year-old legend and mother is still the fastest woman in the world and has no plans of stepping away from the track.
Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce came into the 100-meter finals at the world championships Monday with every chance to make history, as she has so many times before. Fraser-Pryce's quest to win a ...
As she has done for most of the previous 13 years Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was off to a fast start, with Marie-Josée Ta Lou also out fast. By 30 metres, only Shericka Jackson was still close, Ta Lou fading to join a line across the track made up of Dina Asher-Smith, Mujinga Kambundji and two time Olympic Champion Elaine Thompson-Herah. Fraser ...
Fraser-Pryce, long the standard-bearer for the event after winning Olympic gold in 2008 and 2012, bronze in 2016 and silver in 2021, did not start the race, a dropout that was not revealed ...