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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Fraser-Pryce in 2015
Personal information
NationalityJamaican
Born (1986-12-27) 27 December 1986 (age 37)
Kingston, Jamaica
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
LandJamaika
SportTrack and field
EventSprint
ClubMVP Track & Field Club
Coached byStephen Francis
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 60 m: 6.98
  • 100 m: 10.70 =NR
  • 200 m: 22.09[1]
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 3 1
World Championships 9 2 0
World Indoor Championships 1 0 0
World Athletics Final 1 1 0
Pan American Games 1 0 0
Commonwealth Games 1 0 0
CARIFTA Games Junior (U20) 1 0 1
CAC Junior Championships (U17) 1 0 0
Total 17 6 2
Women's athletics
Representing  Jamaika
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2012 London 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Berlin 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2009 Berlin 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2013 Moscow 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2013 Moscow 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2013 Moscow 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2015 Beijing 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2015 Beijing 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2019 Doha 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2019 Doha 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2007 Osaka 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2011 Daegu 4×100 m relay
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sopot 60 m
World Athletics Final
Gold medal – first place 2008 Stuttgart 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2009 Thessaloniki 100 m
Diamond League
Winner 2012 100 m
Winner 2013 100 m, 200 m
Winner 2015 100 m
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m relay
NACAC Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Toronto 4×100 m relay
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima 200 m

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD (née Fraser, born December 27, 1986) is a Jamaican track and field sprinter. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she rose to prominence at the 2008 Olympics after becoming the first Caribbean woman to win gold in the 100 metres. She followed her 2008 victory with a successful defence of her title in 2012, making her one of only three women to win successive Olympic 100 m titles. After injury affected her season, she won bronze in 2016, becoming the first female sprinter to win 100 m medals at three consecutive Olympics. In 2017, she took a one-year break from athletics to have her first child. At the 2019 World Championships, at the age of 32, she became the oldest female sprinter and first mother in 24 years to win 100 m gold at a global championship.

Fraser-Pryce is one of the most decorated athletes in World Championship history with 11 medals, including nine gold and two silver. In addition to her two Olympic titles, she is the only sprinter to become world champion in the 100 m four times—2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019. In 2013, she became the first woman to achieve a "sprint triple" at a single World Championship, winning gold in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m. She added the 60 m title the following year, making her the only woman to hold world titles in all four events at the same time. In 2013, she was named the IAAF World Athlete of the Year.

With over a decade in athletics, Fraser-Pryce has won more global 100 m titles than any other female sprinter in history. Nicknamed the "Pocket Rocket" for her petite five-feet frame and explosive block starts, her personal best of 10.70 seconds is the joint fourth fastest of all time. She has posted the most sub-10.80 s clockings in history with 14, as well as the second most sub-11 s timings with over 50. Due to her achievements and consistency, many publications and sports analysts have described her as the greatest female sprinter of all time. World Athletics called her "the greatest female sprinter of her generation."[2]

Early life and beginnings

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was born to parents Orane Fraser and Maxine Simpson, and grew up in the violent, inner city community of Waterhouse, near Kingston.[3][4] Her mother, a former athlete, was a single parent who worked as a street vendor.[5][6][7] When Fraser-Pryce started running at age 10, she did so barefoot.[8] In her senior year at Wolmer's High School for Girls, she competed in the famous Jamaican Schools Championships, winning the 100 m at aged 16.[3] A product of the fierce rivalry of grassroots athletics in Jamaica, she described these championships as intense, and at times, hostile.[3] However, she admitted that it was "something they got used to."[3]

Fraser-Pryce started taking track seriously at age 21, after she met Stephen Francis at the University of Technology.[9] At the time, Francis was the head coach at the MVP (Maximising Velocity and Power) Track Club, one of two such elite clubs in Jamaica (the other being the Racers Track Club, home to sprinters Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake).[9] She began her career specializing in the 100 m, but did not qualify in the individual event for the 2007 Osaka World Championships.[10] However, she was selected as part of the Jamaican 4 x 100 m relay team that year, earning a silver medal by running in the heats.[2][10]

Career

2008–2009: Olympic and world champion

Fraser-Pryce (centre) ahead of the field in the 100 m final at the 2009 World Championships.

At the Jamaican Athletics Championships in 2008, Fraser-Pryce's top-three finish in the 100 m denied Veronica Campbell-Brown, the reigning world champion, a spot on the Olympic team.[10][11] Barely known among the local athletics scene, many considered Fraser-Pryce too inexperienced for the Olympics and petitioned unsuccessfully to have her swapped in favour of Campbell-Brown.[10] Despite mounting pressure, the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (Jamaica's governing body for athletics) upheld its rule permitting only the top-three finishers on the Olympic team.[10] Fraser-Pryce recalled being disappointed but mostly unfazed by the backlash, and added that her underdog status worked in her favour: "I went in just wanting to do well. So there was no pressure and nobody expected anything of me and I was able to compete better, relaxed and be my best."[3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, held at the Beijing National Stadium, she placed first in her 100 m heats and semifinals.[12] In the final, she led the way to a Jamaican sweep of the medals, capped by a second place tie for Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart (both women ran 10.98 s for silver; no bronze was awarded).[12][13] Fraser-Pryce’s winning time of 10.78 s not only shattered her personal best, it was the second fastest Olympic 100 m time in history.[11][13] Alongside Stewart, Simpson and Campbell-Brown, she also took part in the 4 × 100 m relay, placing first in the heats and qualifying as fastest for the final. However, they did not finish the race in the final due to a mistake in the baton exchange.[12][13]

Now a more established young sprinter, 22-year-old Fraser-Pryce reaffirmed her status on the global stage with another surprising win at the 2009 World Championships, held in Berlin.[10] Taking time off in April to have her appendix removed, she bounced back to win the world title in August, a year to the day after her Olympic triumph in Beijing.[12] Ahead of the championships, compatriot Kerron Stewart held the world lead of 10.75 s and was the frontrunner for gold.[14] However, once in Berlin, Fraser-Pryce showed her form in the semifinal with 10.79 s, the fastest ever non-final time at a global championship.[14] In the 100 m final, she made a flying start and held off a late challenge from Stewart to claim the victory in 10.73 s.[14] Stewart equalled her own personal best of 10.75 s for silver and American Carmelita Jeter won bronze in 10.90 s.[14] Fraser-Pryce's winning time made her the joint third fastest in history at the time, and shaved one-hundredth of a second off Merlene Ottey's Jamaican record.[12][14] With the victory, she also joined American Gail Devers as the only women to win consecutive Olympic and world titles in the 100 m.[14][15] Fraser-Pryce earned a second gold medal in the championships as part of Jamaica's 4 × 100 m relay team, running alongside Stewart, Simone Facey and Aleen Bailey.[16] Later that year, she competed in the now defunct IAAF World Athletics Final, winning silver behind Jeter in the 100 m.[17]

2010 suspension and 2011 Worlds

In June 2010, Fraser-Pryce was suspended from athletics for six months after a urine sample at the Shanghai Diamond League tested positive for oxycodone.[18] Although oxycodone is banned as a narcotic, it is not considered performance enhancing or to be a masking agent.[19] Fraser-Pryce insisted that her positive result was due to medication her coach recommended for a toothache, and that she had neglected to properly declare it.[19][20] She later stated, "[I'm] supposed to set examples – so whatever it is I put in my body it's up to me to take responsibility for it and I have done that."[20] She resumed competition in January 2011.[20][21]

Fraser-Pryce married boyfriend Jason Pryce in January 2011, changing her name from Fraser to Fraser-Pryce.[20] She had a slow start to the 2011 season, coming off her suspension and nursing a calf injury that affected her preparation for the upcoming Daegu World Championships.[22][23] Not considered the favourite for gold, she held a season’s best of 10.95 s ahead of Daegu, making her the sixth fastest of the year.[24][25] In the 100 m final at the World Championships, Fraser-Pryce started quickly but could not maintain the lead, finishing fourth in 10.99 s.[26] Gold went to Carmelita Jeter in 10.90 s, while compatriot Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kelly-Ann Baptiste of Trinidad and Tobago collected silver and bronze in 10.97 s and 10.98 s respectively.[26] She later ran the lead leg on Jamaica's 4 x 100 m relay team, winning silver behind the United States.[2] The 2011 event in Daegu remains Fraser-Pryce's only appearance at a World Championship where she did not win 100 m gold.[27][28]

2012 Olympics and 2013 sprint triple

Fraser-Pryce in the 100 m at the 2012 Diamond League.

Beginning with her first Olympic win in 2008, Fraser-Pryce had been at the forefront of a booming sprint rivalry between Jamaica and the United States.[29][30] At the Beijing Olympics four years earlier, Jamaica had secured five of a possible six gold medals in the sprints, with Fraser-Pryce and Campbell-Brown winning the 100 m and 200 m respectively, and Usain Bolt dominating the men's 100 m, 200 m, and 4 x 100 m (the relay medal was later rescinded).[29][31] Jamaica’s success continued through the 2009 and 2011 World Championships, highlighted by Bolt's record-breaking performances at each event.[32][33] Ahead of the London Olympics, the rivalry once again took centre stage in athletics, with the American team seeking to reclaim its former dominance in the sprints.[34][35]

After an inconsistent start to the 2012 season, Fraser-Pryce won the sprint double at the Jamaican Olympic Trials in June.[36] In the 100 m, she set a new personal best of 10.70 s, which improved on the national record she set in 2009 and moved her up to fourth on the all-time list of fastest 100 m times.[36][37] In the 200 m, she defeated the world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in a career best 22.10 s.[36] While preparing for the Olympics, she was also completing her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Technology in Jamaica. Heading to London, Fraser-Pryce was aiming to defend her Olympic title from 2008 after failing to medal in the world 100 m final in Daegu. However, she faced strong competition from American Carmelita Jeter,[35] the reigning world champion and the second fastest woman of all time.[38][39]

At the Olympics, Fraser-Pryce progressed to the 100 m final as second fastest behind Jeter.[39] In the final she was quickest from the blocks, and ultimately leaned at the finish line for a narrow victory ahead of Jeter to defend her title.[38][39] Her 10.75 s was the second fastest in Olympic history at the time.[21] In fact, Fraser-Pryce defeated the fastest ever 100 m field at the Olympics, with an unprecedented six women breaking 11 seconds.[40] Jeter finished in 10.78 s for silver, with Campbell-Brown claiming bronze in 10.81 s.[40][41] With her win, Fraser-Pryce joined Americans Gail Devers and Wyomia Tyus as the only women to defend an Olympic 100 m title.[8][42]

Fraser-Pryce after her 200 m win at the 2013 World Championships.

In the 200 m final, Fraser-Pryce lowered her personal best to 22.09 s, but was unable to overhaul American Allyson Felix, who took the gold in 21.88 s.[43] She earned her second silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay, running alongside Campbell-Brown, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart. Their finishing time of 41.41 s was a new Jamaican record, but well behind the United States' world record of 40.82 s.[44]

Overall, Jamaica had another strong showing in athletics at the 2012 Olympics.[29][45] In addition to Fraser-Pryce retaining her title, Bolt also continued his winning streak on the men's side, leading a top-two finish for Jamaica in the 100 m, a sweep of the medals in the 200 m,[46] and a new world record in the 4 x 100 m relay.[47] Closing out her successful season, Fraser-Pryce won the 100 m title at the 2012 Diamond League.[48]

The following year, Fraser-Pryce continued to show her consistency. At the 2013 World Championships, held in Moscow, she matched Usain Bolt in achieving a rare "sprint triple"—gold in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 x 100 m.[12][49] This meant that Jamaica made a clean sweep of the sprinting medals in both the men's and women's events.[50] In preparation for her season, Fraser-Pryce decided to prioritise the 200 m.[51] This involved training her mind in addition to her body: "I had to change my mindset for the 200 and make it more like the 100...I’ve worked more on my 200 this year than the 100 and have had to develop the same love for both.”[51] She kickstarted the season with a 100 m victory in January, clocking 11.47 s on home soil in Kingston.[49] In May and June, she enjoyed Diamond League wins in both the 100 m and 200 m in Doha, Shanghai and Eugene.[49] For the second consecutive year, she won the 200 m title at the Jamaican Championships, in a world-leading 22.13 s.[49]

Having lost the 100 m world title in 2011, an in-form Fraser-Pryce arrived at the championships as the top-ranked female athlete in both the 100 m (10.77 s) and 200 m (22.13 s).[49] In the 100 m final, she regained the title as world's fastest woman with a dominating 10.71 s win.[52] Her 0.22-second margin of victory ahead of silver medallist Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast (10.93 s) was the largest in World Championship history.[53][54] Defending champion Carmelita Jeter collected bronze in 10.94 s.[52] By claiming a second world title, Fraser-Pryce became the only woman to win the 100 m twice at both the Olympics (2008, 2012) and the World Championships (2009, 2013).[7][53] In the 200 m final, she stormed to a comfortable victory in 22.17 s, earning her first global title over the distance.[51] As the anchor for Jamaica's 4 × 100 m relay team, she secured her third win in a new championship record of 41.29 s.[16][55]

For the 2013 season, Fraser-Pryce registered the three fastest times of the year in the 100 m and the two fastest in the 200 m.[49] She won six Diamond League races throughout the season (four in the 100 m and two in the 200 m) to clinch the Diamond League titles for both distances.[49] Owing to her achievements on the track throughout the season, she was named the IAAF World Athlete of the Year.[56][57]

2014 indoor debut and third world title

Fraser-Pryce celebrating her 60 m win at the 2014 World Indoor Championships.

On the heels of a successful 2013 season, Fraser-Pryce made her World Indoor Championships debut in Sopot, Poland the next year.[56] Early into the season, she posted 7.11 s in an outdoor 60 m race in Kingston (Jamaica does not have indoor facilities). Months later in Birmingham, she finished second in her only 60 m loss of the season to world 100 m and 200 m silver medallist Murielle Ahoure.[56]

In Sopot, she won both her heat and semifinal in 7.12 s and 7.08 s respectively.[56] In the final, she had her usual quick start and finished ahead of Ahoure in a world-leading 6.98 s.[56] Her winning time, which she achieved with no specific preparation for the 60 m, was the fastest since 1999 and made her the seventh fastest in history at the time.[12][58] In claiming gold, she gave Jamaica its fourth 60 m win in the 16-year history of the championships.[56] She also became the first woman in history to hold world titles in the 60 m, 100 m, 200 m and 4 x 100 m at the same time.[56] This was the foremost competition of the season for Fraser-Pryce, since there were no major championships that year. It was also her last outing at an Indoor Championship until 2020.[59]

Fraser-Pryce, center, collecting her third gold medal in the 100 m at the 2015 World Championships.

In early 2015, Fraser-Pryce opted not to defend her 200 m title at the upcoming World Championships.[60][61] At a Diamond League meet in Paris, she explained that her coach wanted to shift focus back to the 100 m to address deviations in her starting technique.[60] However, she still planned to contest the sprint double at the 2016 Rio Olympics.[60][61] She started the season strong, setting an early world lead of 10.81 s at the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic in May.[62] She lowered the mark to 10.79 s at the Jamaican Championships at the end of June, and a week later, set a new world lead of 10.74 s in Paris.[62] Fraser-Pryce had record-breaking ambitions for the World Championships, held at the Beijing National Stadium where she announced herself to the world back in 2008.[63] Not only was she hoping to become the first woman to win three world titles over 100 m, she was aiming to do so while breaking 10.70 s— her own personal best, Jamaica's national record, and Marion Jones' 16-year-old championship record.[63]

At the championships, she qualified as fastest overall in the semifinal.[64] In the 100 m final, she led from start to finish, fending off a late challenge from Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers to stop the clock in 10.76 s.[64][65] Although happy for the win, Fraser-Pryce was dissatisfied with her time, and in a post-race interview stated, "I'm getting tired of 10.7s...I definitely think a 10.6 is there. Hopefully I will get it together."[64] She also anchored the women's 4 × 100 m team, consisting of Veronica Campbell-Brown, Natasha Morrison and protege Elaine Thompson, to gold.[16] Their 41.07 s was the second fastest time in history and improved on the previous championship record they set in 2013.[66][67]

With the exception of a fifth-place finish in her first race of the year, Fraser-Pryce went undefeated in her remaining ten races in 2015. She capped her season with Diamond League wins in Zürich (10.93 s) and Padova (10.98 s) to take the overall 100 m title.[68]

2016 Olympics and brief split from coach

"I think 2016 was that year that mentally tested me. Even in training there were so many moments I cried, I was angry, I was upset, I didn't know what to do."

– Fraser-Pryce reflecting on her difficult 2016 season.[69]

With a record three world titles and two Olympic titles, Fraser-Pryce had matched Usain Bolt medal for medal in the 100 m throughout their career.[64][70] With the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympics, she set her sights on becoming the first woman to win three consecutive Olympic 100 m titles.[6][70] Her season would not go as planned, however, after an injured toe hindered her preparations for the defence of her title.[70] Suffering from chronic inflammation and restricted movement to her toe, she was forced to take significant time off in the crucial months before Rio.[70][71] After missing several races, she opened her season in May at the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic, finishing last in 11.18 s.[72][73]

In the weeks before the Olympics, Fraser-Pryce struggled to reach form, clocking 11.25 s in Italy and 11.06 s at the London Grand Prix.[25][74] Meanwhile, her training partner Elaine Thompson emerged as the top contender for Olympic gold with a world-leading 10.70 s at the Jamaican Olympic Trials.[75][76] In a highly competitive season where five of her rivals had gone 10.80 s or faster, Fraser-Pryce held a season's best of 10.93 s, ranking her eighth fastest in the world that year.[25][76] Although she initially planned to contest the sprint double, she decided not to run in the 200 m.[70]

In Rio, Fraser-Pryce qualified as joint fastest for the final with Thompson, posting a new season's best of 10.88 s.[77] She was in visible discomfort after winning her semifinal, crying and limping off the track.[78] In the 100 m final, she battled to the finish in a season’s best 10.86 s to win bronze.[79] Thompson secured Jamaica's third consecutive Olympic gold over the 100 m in 10.71 s, while American Tori Bowie earned silver in 10.83 s.[79][80] Fraser-Pryce later collected a silver medal as part of the women's 4 × 100 metres relay team.[81] Although she fell short of defending her Olympic title, she described her 100 m bronze as her "greatest medal ever," given her challenging season.[78]

After the Olympics, Fraser-Pryce briefly parted ways with longtime coach Stephen Francis, whom she shared with Thompson.[82] At the end of August, Francis disclosed that Fraser-Pryce was unhappy with their preparation for the Olympics, and expressed a lack of confidence in Francis' training programme.[82][83] He also hinted at her dissatisfaction with her timings over the years, specifically in lowering her 10.70 s personal best from 2012.[83] However, with no official statement, Fraser-Pryce and her coach reconciled and she resumed training at the MVP Track Club in November of that year.[84]

2018–present: motherhood and comeback

Fraser-Pryce (centre) at the start of the 100 m final at the 2019 World Championships.

In early 2017, Fraser-Pryce announced that she was pregnant and would not be defending her title at the 2017 World Championships in London.[27] She went into labour while watching the world 100 m final that year, and gave birth the next day via emergency C-section.[85][86] She returned to competition less than a year later, describing her journey back as both physically and mentally challenging: "My stomach would be in pain...I couldn’t [train] abdominals properly. I [wondered] whether my body would allow me to put the level of work in to get it done.”[85][87]

Fraser-Pryce took to the international circuit for several Diamond League meets in Europe, all while breastfeeding for the first 15 months.[86] After eight races, she posted her first sub-11 s timing with 10.98 in London in July.[88] She ended her 2018 season in August with a fifth-place finish at the Toronto NACAC Championships, posting 11.18 s.[89] Despite expectations that she would retire, she publicly promised a major comeback.[85]

"Standing here having done it again at 32, and holding my baby, is a dream come true....I can’t believe it. I worked so hard to be back."

– Fraser-Pryce on her victory at the 2019 World Championships.[90]

At the Jamaican Championships in June 2019, Fraser-Pryce finished second to double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson in both the 100 m and the 200 m.[69] Although Thompson won by a comfortable margin in the 200 m, the 100 m final ended in a photo finish, with both sprinters sharing the world-leading time of 10.73 s.[91][92] Fraser-Pryce’s 10.73 in this race became the fastest non-winning time in history.[93] Fraser-Pryce returned to the top of women's sprinting for the remainder of the 2019 season, running at close to personal best times in the 100 m,[94] and recording three of the five fastest times of the year.[27][69] In August, she won 200 m gold at the 2019 Pan American Games, setting a new championship record of 22.43 s.[69][95] However, after losing to Thompson in June, the two did not meet until the 2019 Doha World Championships, in one of the event's most highly anticipated showdowns.[27][69]

In Doha, Fraser-Pryce cruised to 10.80 s in the 100 m heats, the fastest first-round time in World Championships history.[96] She followed with 10.81 s in the semifinal, the fastest qualifying time ahead of the final.[90][97] In the 100 m final, she outpaced the field from the start, powering away to her fourth title in a world-leading 10.71 s—her fastest time since 2013.[87][98][99] Thompson finished fourth in 10.93 s.[87] With this achievement, she became the oldest woman and first mother in 24 years to win a 100 m world or Olympic title.[86][100] Fraser-Pryce admitted to taking particular satisfaction in her win, calling it "a victory for motherhood."[101][102] She added a second gold medal at the championships by running the second leg of the Jamaican 4 x 100 m relay team, her ninth world championship title overall.[16] She had also planned to contest the 200 m, but later withdrew.[103]

In February 2020, Fraser-Pryce won the 60 m at the Muller Indoor Athletics Grand Prix, clocking 7.16 s.[59] It was her first Indoor competition since she won gold in Sopot back in 2014.[59] She is training for the upcoming 2021 Olympics and announced that she will retire after the 2022 World Championships.[16][85]

Legacy and achievements

"We need to put [Fraser-Pryce's] 100 m career into perspective. 2x Olympic 100 champ. Only 2 other women have ever done that. 4x World Champ 100. No other woman has ever done that. And 100m is one of the most difficult events to repeat as champion! Undisputed G.O.A.T. (Greatest of all time)."

– Retired Olympian Michael Johnson on Fraser-Pryce's 2019 win.[104]

Fraser-Pryce with her Diamond League trophy in 2013.

Many publications describe Fraser-Pryce as the greatest female sprinter in history.[2][16] In 2019, the Olympic Channel wrote, "Two consecutive Olympic titles in the 100m, four world titles in the same distance, six Olympic medals in total, eleven World Championship medals overall, nine of which are gold, including in the 200m...: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is one of, if not the, greatest female sprinters of all time."[16] In 2020, Track & Field News ranked her as the top female 100 m sprinter of the 2010s decade, as well as the fifth greatest in the 200 m.[105] The same publication ranked her at number two in the 100 m for the 2000s decade.[105] Sean Ingle of The Guardian lauded her achievements after the 2019 World Championships, insisting that her win gave her "legitimate claim to be considered the greatest ever."[106] Writing for CNN, Ben Church also admired her longevity, noting that her 2019 title came 11 years after her first Olympic title, with her winning time just 0.01 seconds shy of her seven-year-old personal best.[107] Praised for her consistency, Fraser-Pryce has registered 14 sub-10.80 s timings in the 100 m, more than any other woman in history, and one ahead of sprinter Marion Jones.[28][106] She has run below this mark in six separate seasons (the most for any female), and has won all of her championship titles with sub-10.80 performances.[108] In a single season, she has tallied the second most sub-10.80 s clockings (four in 2019), tied with Florence Griffith Joyner and second to Marion Jones (nine).[27][108] Fraser-Pryce is second to Merlene Ottey with 51 sub-11 s clockings.[109] She is the fastest mother in history, and in 2019 joined Americans Gwen Torrence and Wilma Rudolph, as well as Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen, as the only mothers to win a global 100 m title.[86][110]

My secret is just staying humble...know who you are as a person and athlete and just continue to work hard.

— Fraser-Pryce on her longevity in track and field.[107]

Despite her success, her profile on a global scale was largely eclipsed by countryman Usain Bolt.[6][70] On the eve of the 2016 Olympics, The Washington Post alluded to this disparity with the headline "A Jamaican will go for a third gold medal in Rio — and it’s not who you think."[6] Likewise, CNN wrote that Fraser-Pryce had matched Bolt "medal for medal over 100 m" at every global championship, but "somehow, that isn't common knowledge."[70] Although she has been vocal about the gender gap in athletics, Fraser-Pryce has insisted that she has never felt overshadowed.[8][111] She also asserted that the near-unattainable 100 m world record (set by Florence Griffith Joyner[8]) and the lack of consistently fast times in women's sprinting have contributed to the imbalance: "I have always said it's a man's world...[but] I think it has a lot to do with the times as well. When you have male athletes [running]... 9.5s as opposed to female athletes running 10.8s constantly, there is no 'wow' to the event."[61]

After the 2019 championships, sports writer Steve Keating declared Fraser-Pryce the new face of athletics, adding that her "golden personality" and "human interest" resonated with fans, marketers and sponsors.[101] He also saw the birth of her son and her determination to return to the top as compelling dimensions to her legacy.[101]

In 2019, Fraser-Pryce published the children's book I Am a Promise, based on the life lessons she learned growing up and competing as an athlete.[112]

Awards and recognition

In 2008, Fraser-Pryce was honoured with the Order of Distinction for her achievements in athletics.[113] In October 2018, she was also honoured with a statue at the Jamaica National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica.[114] During the ceremony, Minister of Sports Olivia Grange hailed her a role model for young girls and a Jamaican "modern-day hero."[114]

The recipient of many accolades in Jamaica, she has won the JAAA's Golden Cleats Award for Female Athlete of the Year four times: 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2015.[115] She has also received the Jamaican Sportsperson of the Year award four times: 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2019.[116]

On the international scene, she has been nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year five times: 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2019.[117] After she completed the sprint triple at the 2013 Moscow World Championships, she was named IAAF World Athlete of the Year, becoming the first Jamaican woman to win since Merlene Ottey in 1990. In accepting her award, she exclaimed, "I'm shocked and excited. It's something that has been a dream of mine."[118][56]

Technique and running style

Fraser-Pryce's signature style is to start fast and hold off the closers, seen here in her 2015 World Championship final.

Under the guidance of her coach Stephen Francis, Fraser-Pryce honed her technique to become one of the most decorated track athletes of all time.[2][69] She stated that none of her technique came naturally, and that when she began competing, she ran with an exaggerated forward lean: "I had a really bad running posture, like I ran, literally, dropping on my face. Stephen saw all of this and, as a coach, he analyzed and he took a year to actually go through my core needs."[9][119] By 2008, she had improved her posture and sharpened her start, including her first stride, the placement of her arms and the different phases of the sprint.[119] Over time, her technique became second nature: "You feel all of your phases. Because of how the body is, you can feel it, like a sixth sense. So I focus on nailing each phase properly, and if I’m able to, then I know that’s history.”[119]

Fraser-Pryce's trademark is her explosive starts, which have earned her the nickname "Pocket Rocket."[38][52] Her style involves “bolting to the lead”[120] with maximum velocity and then "maintaining her position through to the finish.”[120] Jon Mulkeen of World Athletics described her starting technique as "devastating...her best weapon,"[52] while sports writer Steve Landells declared, "her ability to shift her legs over the first five metres remains the envy of the world."[14] In a study of her performance in the 2009 world 100 m final (when she ran 10.73 s), sports scientists Rolf Graubner and Eberhard Nixdorf reported her 30 m split at 4.02 s, which they determined to be at the level of male sprinters with a performance ability in the 10.40 s to 10.60 s range.[121] By this 30 m point in the race, she had opened up a 0.09 s lead on the rest of the field.[121]

At 1.52 m (5 ft) tall, Fraser-Pryce is more petite than most female sprinters.[9][122] She revealed that when she started training at the University of Technology, "everyone [said] I was too short and I shouldn't think about running fast."[9] A prototypical stride rate runner, she relies on cadence and a high stride frequency (i.e. leg speed) in her races, although she also has "well developed" stride length.[120][121] On average, she takes 50 strides to complete the 100 m, and has a cadence of about 286 steps per minute.[123] In their analysis, Graubner and Nixdorf found that she covered her 2009 final in 49.58 strides — equivalent to an average of two metres per step, with her longest strides of 2.2 m exhibited over the last 20 m of her race.[121] Her peak stride frequency (at 20 to 40 m into the race) averaged around 4.91 times per second.[121][123]

Personal life

In November 2012, Fraser-Pryce graduated from the University of Technology with her Bachelor of Science in Child and Adolescent Development. In 2016, she announced that she would be pursuing a Master of Science in Applied Psychology at the University of the West Indies.[70] A committed Christian,[124] she married Jason Pryce in 2011,[20] and announced her pregnancy in early 2017.[125] On her Facebook she wrote, "All my focus heading into training for my 2017 season was on getting healthy and putting myself in the best possible fitness to successfully defend my title in London 2017, but ... here I am thinking about being the greatest mother I can be."[125] On 7 August 2017, she and her husband welcomed a son named Zyon.[124]

Sponsorship, charities and business

Fraser-Pryce has signed sponsorship deals with Digicel, GraceKennedy and Nike.[126] To promote her chase for Olympic glory in 2016, Nike released a series of promotional videos of her training sessions for the 100 m.[119]

Fraser-Pryce has supported many causes throughout her career. She was named as the first UNICEF National Goodwill Ambassador for Jamaica on 22 February 2010.[127] That year, she was also named Grace Goodwill Ambassador for Peace in a partnership with Grace Foods and not-for-profit organisation PALS (Peace and Love in Society).[128] She also created the Pocket Rocket Foundation, a scheme which supports high school athletes in financial need.[124][126]

Known for frequently changing her hairstyle during track season, she launched a hair salon named Chic Hair Ja in 2013.[129]

Career statistics

Personal bests

Typ Event Time (s) Date Place Notes
Outdoor 100 metres 10.70 29 June 2012 Kingston, Jamaica +0.6 (wind); NR, 4th fastest of all time
200 metres 22.09 8 August 2012 London, United Kingdom −0.2 (wind)
400 metres 54.93 5 March 2011 Kingston, Jamaica
Indoor 60 metres 6.98 9 March 2014 Sopot, Poland 8th fastest of all time

Season's best and rankings

Fraser-Pryce's season's best in the 100 m since 2008.[130]

Season's best 100 m and 200 m times, with world rank in parentheses.[130][131]

Year 100 metres 200 metres
2008 10.78 (1) 22.15 (6)
2009 10.73 (2) 22.58 (18)
2010 - -
2011 10.95 (6) 22.59 (14)
2012 10.70 (1) 22.09 (2)
2013 10.71 (1) 22.13 (1)
2014 11.01 (8) 22.53 (13)
2015 10.74 (1) 22.37 (17)
2016 10.86 (8) -
2017 - -
2018 10.98 (10) -
2019 10.71 (1) 22.22 (7)

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Jamaika
2002 Central American and Caribbean
Junior Championships (U-17) 		Bridgetown, Barbados 4th 200 m 25.24
(−1.0 m/s)
1st 4×100 m relay 45.33 CR
2005 CARIFTA Games (U-20) Bacolet, Trinidad and Tobago 3rd 100 m 11.73
(+0.9 m/s)
1st 4×100 m relay 44.53
2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan 2nd 4×100 m relay 42.70 SB
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China 1st 100 m 10.78 PB
(±0.0 m/s)
DNF 4×100 m relay Dropped baton
2009 World Championships Berlin, Germany 1st 100 m 10.73 NR
(+0.1 m/s)
1st 4×100 m relay 42.06
2011 World Championships Daegu, Korea 4th 100 m 10.99
(−1.4 m/s)
2nd 4×100 m relay 41.70 NR
2012 Olympic Games London, Great Britain 1st 100 m 10.75
(+1.5 m/s)
2nd 200 m 22.09 PB
(−0.2 m/s)
2nd 4×100 m relay 41.41 NR
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia 1st 100 m 10.71 WL
(−0.3 m/s)
1st 200 m 22.17
(−0.3 m/s)
1st 4×100 m relay 41.29 CR
2014 World Indoor Championships Sopot, Poland 1st 60 m 6.98 WL PB
Commonwealth Games Glasgow, Scotland 1st 4×100 m relay 41.83 GR
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 1st 100 m 10.76
(−0.3 m/s)
1st 4×100 m relay 41.07 CR
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3rd 100 m 10.86 SB
(+0.5 m/s)
2nd 4×100 m relay 41.36 SB
2018 NACAC Championships Toronto, Canada 5th 100 m 11.18
2nd 4×100 m relay 43.33
2019 World Relays Yokohama, Japan 3rd 4×200 m relay 1:33.21
Pan American Games Lima, Peru 1st 200 m 22.43
World Championships Doha, Qatar 1st 100 m 10.71 WL
(+0.1 m/s)
1st 4×100 m relay 41.44 WL

Circuit wins

National titles

  • Jamaican Championships
    • 2009: 100 m
    • 2012: 100 m, 200 m
    • 2013: 200 m
    • 2015: 100 m
  • Jamaican U18 Championships
    • 2002: 200 m

See also

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