One last dance for Jamaican sprint star Shelly-Ann
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Reading Time: 2min | Tue. 09.07.24. | 12:32
The 37-year-old has medaled in every single Olympics, from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 to Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will bid farewell to the Olympics this summer as she races in her fifth consecutive and last Games.
The triple Olympic and ten-time world champion will represent Jamaica in the 100m.
She has two Olympic 100m titles (Beijing 2008 and London 2012) to her name and has also claimed an astonishing five world gold medals over the distance.
The Pocket Rocket is headed to her 5th Olympics! She’s the third fastest woman of all time and the most highly decorated Olympic 100m sprinter - for this week’s #SisterhoodSpotlight, we’re highlighting the legendary Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (@realshellyannfp) 🏅💖 pic.twitter.com/i2Vu4meUDj
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Fraser-Pryce, who opened her campaign last month and has a season’s best of 10.94, will also be part of the 4x100m squad at the Olympics and will be hoping to retain the crown that Jamaica won three years ago.
The 37-year-old has medaled in every single Olympics, from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 to Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
She will be joined over 100m in Paris by Shericka Jackson and Tia Clayton.
Jackson is the double world 200m champion and fastest woman alive in the half a lap. After a surprising start to the season – her season bests in the 100m and 200m by the end of May were 11.03 and 22.97 – she bounced back at the Jamaican trials.
The 29-year-old clocked a stunning 10.84 to win the 100m and two days later came back to claim victory in the 200m with 22.29.
Clayton is just 19 and is one of Jamaica’s many prodigious sprinting talents in the sport.
The teenager finished second to Jackson in her country’s 100m final at the trials and clocked 10.90. In the semi-finals, she recorded an incredible personal best of 10.86.
The trio is set to light up the Paris Games’ track alongside other contenders led by world champion, American Sha'Carri Richardson who will be making her debut at the Games.
In 2021, Richardson qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics but did not participate after being banned for anti-doping rule violations. She tested positive for THC metabolites indicating recent cannabis use. She accepted a one-month suspension by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) saw her miss the Games.
On the men’s side, Jamaica boasts three young sprinting superstars.
Kishane Thompson stormed to a sensational win at the trials with a world-leading 9.77, establishing himself as a contender for the Olympic gold medal in Paris.
One man who might have something to say about that is Oblique Seville, who wasn’t too far behind Thompson in Kingston with a personal best of 9.82.
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