In one of the most anticipated events of the World Athletics Championships, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stormed to victory to claim 100m gold in Oregon in a new championships record.
The reigning – and now five-time – world champion was in a class of her own as she set a time of 10.67s to record back-to-back world titles. Shericka Jackson came home second and reigning Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah third in a Jamaican sweep of the podium.
Fraser-Pryce has been in excellent form this season, having posted the fastest time of the year. However, she faced challenges from her decorated teammate Thompson-Herah, who completed a famous ‘double double’ when she won the 100 and 200m races at Tokyo 2020 after doing the same at Rio 2016.
And a new challenger has arisen from within the Jamaican ranks, with Jackson winning both the 100m and 200m at June’s Jamaican trials, including setting the third-fastest time in history in the longer event.
However, Fraser-Pryce is a force of nature and once again proved her class in a stacked field that also included Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith who finished fourth as she equalled her national record, and home favourites Aleia Hobbs and Melissa Jefferson.
The 35-year-old Fraser-Pryce has now registered 10.67 three times this season, including in this all-important World Athletics Championships final. She remains one of the most successful – and popular – women in sport, having also claimed a total of eight Olympic medals, with three of them gold.
