Five-time world 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica) plans to end her long racing career soon. In a Facebook post, she told her fans that she thinks next year’s Paris 2024 Olympics will end her career at a high level.
“HELLO. Shelly-Anne is my name, running is my glory! I’m thinking of Paris… My 5th and final ever final. Have you started your plans for 2024??? Stop waiting for the New Year”, wrote the Jamaican athlete.
The 36-year-old sprinter had a tough season nursing an injury. She still managed to return to the track and win medals at the World Championships in Budapest in the summer.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is a Jamaican track and field sprinter competing in the 60m, 100m and 200m. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time. One of the most enduring track athletes in history, Fraser-Pryce’s career spans over a decade and a half, from the late 2000s to the 2020s. Her success on the track, including her consistency at major championships, helped to usher in the golden age of Jamaican sprinting. In the 100m, her signature event, she is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a five-time world champion. In the 200m, she has won gold and silver at the World Athletics Championships, as well as an Olympic silver medal.
An eight-time Olympic medalist, she rose from relative obscurity at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, becoming the first Caribbean woman to win gold in the 100m. At the London 2012 Olympics, she became the third woman in history to defend an Olympic 100m title. After injury affected her season, she won bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Thirteen years after her first Olympic win, she won a silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, becoming the first athlete to medal in the 100m at four consecutive Olympic Games.
