- Fraser-Pryce blew away her opposition in parent’s race at her son’s sports day
- The 38-year-old announced a return to the track following an extended break
- The Jamaican is a three-time Olympic champion and ten-time world champion
Three-time Olympic sprinting champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce showed no mercy as she brushed aside the competition in a parent’s 100m race at her son’s sports day.
The Jamaican star, whose 10.6secs personal best time makes her the third fastest woman of all time behind Florence Joyner-Griffith and Elaine Thompson-Herah, obliterated the field and eased to a victory of around 20 metres.
The ‘Pocket Rocket’ was competing in support of her seven-year-old son Zyon, who was born in 2017, nine years after she claimed her first gold medal in Beijing.
Fraser-Pryce left all of her opponents in her wake from the start line and opened up a mammoth lead within 10 metres that she only extended as the race progressed.
Despite her illustrious sprinting pedigree, the 38-year-old is no stranger to the event and was seen in a similarly dominant display at a sports day in 2023. On that occasion, Fraser-Pryce beat the the rest of the pack by nearly 50 metres, perhaps indicating that even her talents are affected by the passage of time.
A more realistic explanation is the upcoming outdoor athletics season.
Three-time Olympic sprinting champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce showed no mercy as she brushed aside the competition in a parent’s 100m race
After a lengthy break, Fraser-Pryce announced this week that she will ne returning to the track this year
Fraser-Pryce pulled out of last year’s Olympic Games in Paris due to injury before the semi-final. Ahead of the Games she had revealed that the event would be her last Olympics.
However, following a lengthy break, the sprinting great announced that she will be returning to the track and offered a glimpse into her training in a video on social media.
Fraser-Pryce burst onto the international athletics scene in 2008 after winning the 100m gold at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.
In 2011 she married her husband Jason Pryce, who he met through a mutual friend, former Jamaican sprinting icon Asafa Powell. The couple were first introduced to one another in 2007 when their paths crossed during training at the University of Technology in Kingston.
‘My husband will say that my work is hard, and he knows how everything has shaped my life,’ she is quotes as saying of Jason in 2012 by Essentially Sports. ‘He has been there 100 percent, and I don’t know what I would ever do without him.
‘That’s one of the reasons I feel that if you feel you have chosen the right person for you, then you will know. We are self-approved. We don’t need anybody’s approval. We have the approval of God.’
The couple welcomed their son Zyon in 2017. Jason, a former 400m hurdler, has largely stayed out of the limelight.
The sprinter is a ten-time world champion across the 100m, relay and 200m disciplines, with her most recent win coming in 2022 at the tournament held in Eugene, Oregon.
She won a bronze and two silver medals at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest and will be aiming to add to her tally in Tokyo in September.
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