Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce sped her way back to the top of the sprint game at the world championships in Oregon, winning her fifth 100 metres world title by leading a Jamaican sweep and knocking off Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah.
Fraser-Pryce, 35, mother of a four-year-old son, Zyon, led all the way and crossed the line in 10.67 seconds. She beat Shericka Jackson by 0.06s, while Thompson-Herah finished a surprising third in 10.81s.
A night that started with thoughts that Thompson-Herah might knock off Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 34-year-old world record of 10.49s closed instead with Fraser-Pryce setting a world championships record. Marion Jones set the old mark of 10.70s in 1999.
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Fraser-Pryce was all smiles after the race, a different reaction than last year in Tokyo, when she finished second by a sizeable 0.13s.
“I went back home and I worked and I worked and I came out here, and I had the success,” she said in her on-track interview.
The win added to titles she won in 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019. She also won the Olympic titles in 2008 and 2012.
Her 2019 win came not long after she had her baby. She called that “a victory for motherhood”.
